In the mold of our very popular series of state alphabet books, we offer "Z is for Zamboni" to hockey fans young and old across North America. Matt Napier's "breakaway" rhymes and "hard-checking" expository text team up with the "top-shelf" illustrations of Melanie Rose to elucidate this increasingly popular game for every beginning hockey aficionado. Highlighting rules, players, coaches, teams, and the history of the game, it is both fun and educational.

Z Is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Av2 Fiction Readalong 2016)

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Napier, Matt

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Av2 Fiction Readalong

Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)

Sleeping Bear Press

The companion volume to our bestselling, Blue Spruce Award winner, Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet. Like our alphabet series our counting books are written in a two-tier format with charming poems for young readers and expository text for older readers. Young sports fans see numbers everywhere--the scoreboard, the retired jerseys in the rafters, the numerology of sports stats--and Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book delivers them faster than an assist from the Great One, number 99 himself. Hat Tricks Count will answer many of the fast paced questions kids have. What is a Hat Trick, anyway? Cross checking, high sticking, and hooking penalties add up to what? Who scored more career goals--Gordie Howe or Wayne Gretzky?

HAT TRICK COUNTS: A Hockey Counting Book.

Toddlers will delight in this board book highlighting well-known Canadian symbols and traditions, including famous buildings and wildlife. Rhyming riddles frame the questions, while brightly painted clues help the youngest book lover figure out the answer.

Little Canada (Little Country)

Humor

Thick, sturdy pages combined with short, easy-to-read sentences introduce young hockey fans to numbers found at the game, from two goalies to eight ticket stubs.

Hockey Numbers (Sports)

For many sports fans there's no such thing as too much hockey. And in I Spy with My Little Eye Hockey, young readers get double the fun. Matt Napier, author of Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet, teams up with photographer David Milne to create a visual puzzle book that challenges the deductive skills and sharp eyes of young readers. Dual look-alike photographs are filled with hockey masks, sticks, pucks, even miniature ice rinks and trading cards. But one of the scenes has been slightly altered. Can you see the changes? How many can you find? Poetic clues help young fans and seasoned veterans find the various differences between each pair of scenes. From the number of Zambonis on the ice to the sweaters hung in a locker room, hockey fans of all ages will enjoy this new way of spying the game!Matt Napier is the author of the bestselling Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet and Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book. The son of a professional hockey player, Matt was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is a recent law school graduate and lives in Toronto. David Milne is a third-generation photographer in Toronto, Canada. He studied at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. David photographs art for numerous galleries and artists, corporate portraits, products and all types of events. Travel photography is his passion.

I Spy with My Little Eye Hockey: Hockey

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Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports)

"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.

Little Hockey (Little Sports)

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Z Is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Av2 Fiction Readalong 2016)

Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)

HAT TRICK COUNTS: A Hockey Counting Book.

Little Canada (Little Country)

Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)

Hockey Numbers (Sports)

I Spy with My Little Eye Hockey: Hockey

Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet (Sports)

Hockey Numbers (Sports)

Little Hockey (Little Sports)