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My long time followers already know I am a big fan of the children's sports series Brady Brady . Author Mary Shaw and illustrator Chuck Temple have a new title out for 2010 - Brady Brady and the Missed Hatrick Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com - BradyBrady.com Aimed at kids aged 4 through 8, this is the 11th installment in the Brady Brady hockey series (2 baseball and 1 football titles also exist). I love the beautifully illustrated glossy pages, certain to capture the imagination of any youth. The stories are always entertaining, and more importantly possess a positive moral. In "The Missed Hatrick" Brady's love for playing street hockey with his friends starts to create some problems, as he is so single-focused on rushing off to his hockey games that he forgets to do his chores and to help his mom and dad. But Brady gets the lesson of a life time when he absent-mindedly leaves his best pal - pet dog Hatrick - tied to a lamp post in winter...

I love children's hockey titles. Not only do these books introduce kids to the great sport of hockey, they also, and far more importantly, get kids hooked on reading. I consider it a great duty to pass on information about kid's hockey books because of this. Reviewing kids hockey books is not easy though, because different stories are better for some kids than others. I really encourage all parents to thoroughly screen each title before buying, as no one knows their kid better. I completely admit that I can often have trouble reviewing kids books because a) I'm not a kid and b) the kids that came into my life are teenagers, not little ones. There are no shortage of kid's titles to choose from in 2008, but I could never really suggest a book that would be perfect for every kid. Until now. I was recently introduced into a series of books called Brady Brady . The kid in me was instantly taken by the cartoonish illustrations and the brilliant use of colour. It is sure to c...