Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book [Hardcover]

Matt Napier (Author), Melanie Rose (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up

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?

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About the Author

Matt Napier wrote the award winning Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet. He is currently attending law school at the University of Windsor.

Melanie Rose has illustrated six other titles for Sleeping Bear. She lives near Toronto, Ontario.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press; First Edition edition (September 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585361631
• ISBN-13: 978-1585361632
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 11.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Children's Books > Sports & Games > Sports > Hockey
  • #49 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Horses

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good to go with Z is for Zamboni, April 5, 2008

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Puddle (Woodcock Pocket, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book (Hardcover)

This book is a good follow up to Z is fo Zamboni. It has numbers rather than letters, and the two would make a great gift together. As a stand alone book it is not as good as the Zamboni book though.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book for hockey fans, March 2, 2006

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S. Barnes "hockey girl" (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hat Tricks Count: A Hockey Number Book (Hardcover)

I bought this book for my granddaughter who is hockey fan and loves the game. She really was interested in learning her numbers. We are a hockey family and anything that can help my granddaughter is a winner in my book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little Hockey Fans, January 7, 2009

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Sooz "Sooz" (Western NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hockey Numbers (Board book)

This sturdy board book is colorful and fun especially for a 2 year-old boy in my family daycare who is obsessed with hockey right now. We keep it in a special place in our cozy book corner for him. Another 4-year old who is a hockey team drop-out at the moment is rebuilding his interest in playing and this book is a great help and encouragement. I gave them their own copy for Christmas and it has a place in the 2 year-old's crib at home.