Author Description

Jack puts his hockey cards on the line! Will his prized Maurice Richard card be enough to save the day? A touching story of a boy's love for hockey, the handing down of sports traditions, and a tribute to one of the game's greatest players. The Hockey Card has established itself as a best-selling, award-winning, popular children's book in Canada, with over 45,000 copies sold in English and French." Authors Jack Siemiatycki and Avi Slodovnick are lifelong sports fans who loved to collect and play with sports trading cards as children. Together they wrote the Canadian bestseller, The Hockey Card (Lobster Press, 2001), which has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. It was recommended by PBS Teacher Source (2002), and named one of the top twelve children's books of 2002 by Maclean's Magazine.