The Best Hockey Books for Kids

Rhyming riddles turn sticks, pucks, skates, and helmets into a first hockey guessing game.

An alphabet of hockey, from the blue line to the Zamboni, with a fact tucked behind every letter.

A bear, a moose, and a beaver are desperate for hockey season — and keep falling through ice that is not ready yet.

Ciara is done hauling her gear across town when there is a perfectly good frozen river behind her house.

The beaver flood has frozen smooth at last, and a group of kids walk out under the full moon to play.

The Zamboni tells its own story: the ice is chewed up, the period is almost over, and everyone is watching.

The Meat-Eaters face the Veggiesaurs, and T. Rex takes the opening face-off against Triceratops.

Mo can barely stay upright on his skates, and the Geese need him on the ice against the Ducks.

Eight-year-old twins visit a Bruins practice and land a case: the star player’s lucky necklace is missing before the Stanley Cup final.

A pro player is building Greenfield a new rink, and someone is wrecking the equipment and the blueprints.

Pie’s skates are too big and a teammate keeps at him — then an antique hockey game starts predicting his shifts.

The Great One, from a backyard rink in Brantford, Ontario, to more than sixty NHL records.

The oldest trophy in sports, the leagues that fought over it, and how a team earns the right to lift it.

The Screech Owls arrive at Lake Placid for an international peewee tournament, and someone starts sabotaging them.

Hockey is Conor’s entire life until his dog gets sick, and paying for the treatment means giving the season up.