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. Volume XXI Number 6. . . .October 10, 2014
My Little Hockey Book is a three-in-one board book, with the majority of its pages being a counting book. Beginning with �1 rink� and concluding with �12 players,� the book uses photos of hockey-related items as the �objects� to be counted. While numbers 1 through 4 are treated via single pages, the remaining eight are handled through double-page spreads. The use of solid coloured backgrounds causes the objects to stand out and facilitates their being easily counted. Younger readers may be challenged, however, in a number of instances (five, actually) where the item to be counted is also part of a player�s equipment. For example, with �six�, there are five hockey sticks placed against a red background while the sixth stick is in the player�s hands. Hopefully, after this initial experience, youngsters will recognize the need to look more widely. Though hockey helmets and their attached cages mask the players� gender, in at least one instance a player is definitely a girl. Unfortunately, the one photo in which a team poses for a group photo, the helmet-less young players are all boys.
Recommended. Dave Jenkinson, CM�s editor, lives in Winnipeg, MB.
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The second section consists of a pair of facing pages that show the equipment worn by forwards/defencemen and that worn by goalies. Given the book�s young audience, this content might be a bit too mature, but, on the positive side, it does expand their vocabulary. The brief text states that �My equipment protects me when I play�, but where is the jill strap and the jock strap and support cup? And don�t goalies also wear something to protect their necks?