Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book

by Matt Napier, Melanie Rose (Illustrator)

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?

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Number

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2005

Reviews

[Ali Book&Seaglasshunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a great concept! We love hockey in my family, so I was naturally drawn to this book after reading the companion book “Z is for Zamboni”. I love that there are sidebars featuring more information than the short blurb on each page. It makes it easy to adapt the reading to the audience and add in more information if you are curious about a certain page.
My favorite part was that the pictures show each number, but in a creative way-children can count along with the numbers that way.

[Maureen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Would have given it more stars if it hadn't had such a Montreal Canadians bias! Can't believe he barely acknowledges Bobby Orr!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute, but definitely favoring Canadian hockey.