Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Hockey books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
1. The Day My Fart Followed Me To Hockey (My Little Fart) (2016)
If you and your child love to read together, then you are going to love reading along with Timmy and his Fart as they play hockey together!The Day My Fart Followed Me To Hockey is a beautifully illustrated journey of Timmy and his best friend the Little Fart as they attend Timmy’s first hockey tryouts. Chaos and laughter ensue as the Fart attempts to help out his best friend the only way he knows how.If you enjoy reading funny books with beautiful illustrations and love having your child read along with you, then make sure you grab The Day My Fart Followed Me To Hockey.Discover…
2. It’s Hockey Time, Franklin! (Peanuts) (2017)
Franklin soars onto the ice with Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang in this 8×8 storybook based on a classic Peanuts pastime!When Franklin accepts Charlie Brown’s invitation to play hockey at the pond, the ace player doesn’t get the carefree afternoon he expects. First Peppermint Patty refuses to share the ice. Then a rival group of kids try to claim the pond for themselves. It looks like Franklin will never get to skate, until he brainstorms a brilliant play to please everyone. With Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Lucy, and Snoopy on…
3. Hockey Morning Noon and Night (2015)
This colourful picture book is based on the author’s seven-year-old son and his capacity to incorporate hockey into all that he does: eating, drawing, music, visits with friends, sleeping and stories. This book has a different feel from her previous books, with playful watercolour and ink images of characters and scenes, sometimes three or four to a page, and no complete backgrounds – just light-hearted visual vignettes that enhance the verse with humour and coziness. It will be an approachable book for kids, and heart-warming for any adult involved in hockey culture….
4. Hockey: The Math of the Game (Sports Math) (2011)
How do you calculate a players points? Whats the difference between a goalies save percentage and his goals against average? How much water is needed to cover an ice rink? Fight for the puck and learn about the math that goes into the sport of hockey!…
5. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (2005)
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered what Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. Wayne Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event, giving readers an ice-level view of the amateurs who took on a Russian hockey juggernaut at the height of the Cold War. He details the unusual chemistry of the Americans—formulated by their fiercely determined…
6. The Great Book of Ice Hockey: Interesting Facts and Sports Stories (Sports Trivia) (Volume 1) (2017)
The Great Book of Ice Hockey is a must for anyone who loves sports trivia. The book is a compendium of interesting facts and sport stories about the great game of ice hockey, with information about the early days before the National Hockey League (NHL) all the way to the stars of today. There are random facts about leagues, rules, coaches, players, and inside stories about the early days of the game. The answers to hundreds of trivia questions lie in these pages. Learn about foreign leagues, junior hockey, and superstars like Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Alexander…
7. Composition: Hockey White and Black Marble Composition Notebook. Ice Hockey Player Wide Ruled Book 7.5 x 9.25 in, 100 pages, journal for girls boys, kids, elementary school students and teachers (2018)
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8. NHL All Stars 2018-19: The Ultimate Hockey Coloring Book for Adults and Kids (All Star Sports Coloring) (Volume 6) (2018)
This is the 2018-19 NHL edition of the best selling All Stars series! With more players, more detail, more statistics and more excitement for hockey fans of all ages! Featuring all 31 current team logos, 30 high quality player illustrations and 6 NHL Legends! NHL All Stars 2018-19 is the ultimate coloring book for the creative hockey fan and the perfect gift for children and adults alike! Includes: Connor McDavid, Carey Price, Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, John Tavares, Jamie Benn, Sergei Bobrovsky, Brent Burns, Drew Doughty, Leon Draisaitl, Shayne Gostisbehere, Victor Hedman, Roman Josi,…
9. Hockey Wars (2018)
When hockey and friendship collide!An old friendship is pushed to its limits as Millie and Cameron face off against each other in a grudge match to finally see who’s got the best hockey team in Dakota.Millie and Cameron grew up as close as any two friends could be, playing together on the same hockey team and hanging out together after school. However, when the hockey team was split between boys and girls, their friendship began to change, and not for the better.Now, Millie and Cameron are rivals, playing against each other to finally settle who has the best hockey team, boys or girls?…
10. Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey’s Greatest Coaches ()
They are motivators, key strategists, tough bosses, and choreographers. They can be branded as heroes, ousted as scapegoats, quietly valued as friends, and everything in between. It's all in the job description for an NHL head coach. In Behind the Bench, ESPN's Craig Custance sits down for film sessions and candid conversations with some of the game's most notable modern luminaries—names like Mike Babcock, Joel Quenneville, Dan Bylsma, Todd McLellan, Ken Hitchcock, and Claude Julien—all of whom share their singular views on topics ranging from leadership secrets to on-ice game plans. Dissect some of…
Best Hockey Books That You Need
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The Rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009-2018: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and the Greatest Dynasty in Hockey
Author(s): Rick Buker
Publisher: Sports Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 6 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2343511
Playing His Part: A York Bombers Hockey Romance (The York Bombers Book 7)
Author(s): Lisa B. Kamps [Kamps, Lisa B.]
Publisher: BimHaven Press, Year: 2019, Size: 291 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2427545
Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other
Author(s): Ken Dryden
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2432579
Hockey anatomy
Author(s): Goodman, Paul; Terry, Michael; Toews, Jonathan
Publisher: Human Kinetics, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2479249
Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds
Author(s): Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, Sven Smit
Publisher: Wiley, Year: 2018, Size: 5 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2222858
Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century
Author(s): Carol Komaromy, Jenny Hockey
Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2018, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2250834
Hockey Plays and Strategies
Author(s): Mike Johnston; Ryan Walter
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, Year: 2018, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2256049
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Author(s): Lindsay Wong
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2295861
Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom
Author(s): Angie Abdou
Publisher: ECW Press, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2296938
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly hot items according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.