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Owen and Holly learn that, with friends and hockey, any Christmas can be bright and anyplace can feel like home.
When Owen and Holly have to move from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia just before Christmas, they miss their friends -- and hockey. But their dad has a surprise up his sleeve. On Christmas Eve, the secret is revealed: an outdoor hockey rink he has made nearby -- and it's filled with new friends.
A paperback edition of a favourite Canadian holiday story.
About this Author
DAVID WARD is the author of the best-selling picture books The Hockey Tree and One Hockey Night. Raised in Quebec and Vancouver, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife & children. Visit him online at www.davidward.ca.
BRIAN DEINES is an outstanding Canadian children's book illustrator who has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for his work. Most recently, he illustrated The Road to Afghanistan and On a Snowy Night for Scholastic Canada. In both The Hockey Tree and One Hockey Night he applies his love of hockey and of the Canadian outdoors. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he makes his home in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and daughter.
Reviews
Praise for One Hockey Night:
o Short-listed, OLA Blue Spruce Award
o Short-listed, Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration
"A Christmas book, a hockey book [and] a gorgeously illustrated picture book . . . the perfect Canadian kids' book." --Canadian Bookseller
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