A playbook is like a map for the team, and practice helps everyone learn how to follow it together.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be a coach. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
Your child may see you with a whistle and clipboard without knowing how much planning and teaching happens before a game. This personalized book follows your work, from setting up practice to encouraging the team.
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about coaches
That coaching is teaching, not just watching games
Why practice matters more than the scoreboard
What a coach does before the team even arrives
That losing a game can still be a good day
Frequently asked questions
Any sport?
Yes. Tell us your sport and the level you coach in the short interview, and we'll build the scenes around that work.
I coach kids' teams. Will my child recognize it?
Yes. Describe your coaching routine and setting. The story can explain youth coaching while keeping children out of the illustrations.
Can it show the behind-the-scenes work?
Yes. Tell us about planning practices, watching film, or setting up drills so the story can include those parts of your day.
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.