Children's Nonfiction Counting & Numbers
Little Hockey
- Publisher
- Sleeping Bear Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Counting & Numbers
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Board book
- ISBN
- 9781585367122
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $10.95
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Where to buy it
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 0 to 6
- Grade: p to 1
Description
"Round and black--do you know its name? You need this disk to play the game." Answer: Puck. Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.
About the authors
Matt Napier is the author of the best-selling Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet; Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book; and I Spy with My Little Eye: Hockey. He lives in Toronto.
Renné Benoit is living her childhood dream of being an artist. Trained in graphic design, she is the award-winning illustrator of more than 15 books for children. Her awards include the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Children's Literature for Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion; the OLA Silver Birch Express Award for The Secret of the Village Fool; and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize for both Fraser Bear and Goodbye to Griffith Street. The latter was also nominated for the Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award. Big City Bees was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration, and A Year of Borrowed Men was a finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, among others. Renné lives in St. Thomas, Ontario.
