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K-3
Illustrated by
Matt James.
In this paean to Canada's national sport, rural children wait through an increasingly wintry December for...what? The mystery is gently teased in the lyrical text and in James's majestic but homey paintings that glint with moonlit snow until the magical moment when the moon is full and the beaver flood iced over and ready for skates. An unusual, mystical complement to the usual hockey books.