My First Book of Hockey: A Rookie Book (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book)

by Sports Illustrated Kids

Overview

Next up in the fan-favorite Rookie Book series, Sports Illustrated Kids explains the coolest game in the world to its youngest fans.

The puck drops, skates flash, and sticks fly-a hockey game is underway! With a fun mix of Sports Illustrated action photography, simple text, a full glossary of terms, and cool graphics, My First Book of Hockey introduces readers to the basics. Kids (and maybe a few adults, too!) will learn how power plays work, how the three-period game flows, what a hat trick is, what's up with the referee's crease, and more.

An illustrated "rookie" character appears on every page, guiding the reader moment by moment, and helping to make My First Book of Hockey an ideal shared reading experience between parents and their young rookies before, during, and after the game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618931771
Publisher:	Sports Illustrated Books
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Series:	Sports Illustrated Kids Rookie Books Series
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	109,060
Product dimensions:	10.70(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

"A colorful and lively overview of hockey. Highly recommended." - School Library Journal 
"Kids who already love hockey will eat this up, but its stealth audience may be the clueless kid whose BFF is a rabid fan." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 
"A must-have, friendly introduction to the sport...a great series for burgeoning sports fans big or small." - Mom Read It 
"Hockey may be the least understood of the four major North American sports and therefore the most in need of a primer for newbie fans. My First Book of Hockey will shoot and score for them." - NC Teacher Stuff 
"An easy to read and easy to understand lighthearted look at the game of hockey."- Mrs. Mommy Booknerd 
"A great way to introduce hockey to little readers and possibly get them interested in a new sport!"- Outnumbered 3 to 1 
"It's funny, makes a great read aloud!"- Batch of Books 
"Sports Illustrated Kids does an impressive job of explaining the game for even the youngest player to understand."- Sincerely Stacie 
"A must read for all young fans…they’ll love how fun this book is!" - Christy's Cozy Corners 
"A great series for little players. Highly recommended." - Jean Little Library

From the Publisher

08/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—A colorful and lively overview of hockey. Readers are introduced to the basic principles of the sport and move on to learn the object of the game, where it is played, and how the game is divided before the narrative follows the trajectory of a real-life hockey game. In the left-hand corner of each spread, a box keeps track of the period (there are three periods overall), and in the right-hand corner, a box keeps track of the time (there are 20 minutes to each period). The center of each spread is dedicated to a particular aspect of the game, with a key concept highlighted. For instance, in the first period, with six minutes and 45 seconds left on the clock, a player is shown winding up for a big shot. The term slap shot is enlarged. Photographs feature current players, who are often accompanied by illustrated thought and speech bubbles that are sure to entertain older readers more familiar with the game. (The authors have even included an emoji joke.) One caveat, though: these very contemporary details may prematurely date the book. In addition to the two time markers in the corners of each spread, the pages are color-coded to correspond to the current period (first period is blue, second period is orange), which may provide young readers with entertaining lessons on colors and counting, too. VERDICT Highly recommended purchase for all sports collections.—Laura Lintz, Henrietta Public Library, Rochester, NY

School Library Journal

2016-07-02
An introduction to the game of hockey for the newest of newcomers.Sports Illustrated for Kids here endeavors to lay out the objective and rules of hockey, and while the fundamentals of the sport are addressed, the book fails to capture its essence. Cutout photographs of players, presumably from SI’s vast archive, engaged in some particular action—a face-off, a check, a pass, a save, a slap shot—are pasted onto fields of retina-burning color, thus erasing any sense of the action taking place in a rink, let alone on ice. In an effort to get all the different pro teams in on the action, there is little continuity—one player shoots, but another scores; one gets a penalty, but another enters the penalty box. The sparse text is able to explain icing and offside, but that’s almost hidden in the delivery. While the little, manic, white cartoon character that accompanies each spread can be embraced or ignored, what can’t be overlooked are the pointless and even irksome speech and thought bubbles digitally collaged into the compositions: “Did you notice that Corey has spinach in his teeth?” “Is that my Aunt Mary sitting in the stands?” (The latter occurs to a player in the middle of a check.) Hockey is commotion when not mayhem, with episodes of grace and finesse, but all that is absent in these pages. This book has all the gripping power of dull blades. (Informational picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews