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Long time readers of this site know I love Mike Leonetti's children themed hockey history books. Leonetti continues his series with - Iginla Sparks the Flames . Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters From The Publisher - A young hockey player learns about persistence and charity with the help of his hockey idol. Riley is a Calgary Flames fan who dreams of playing organized hockey — but it just isn't something his family can afford. Riley is applying for financial help when he meets Flames captain Jarome Iginla! After learning that Iginla grew up working hard for what he has, and seeing that even with his fame and talent this hockey superstar is a kind and generous person, Riley vows to grow up to be just like him. With financial aid, Riley is able to make his hockey dreams come true. He knows that it will take a lot of hard work both on and off the ice, but he's determined to play like Iginla, and more importantly, to be able to give back to his community as Iginl...

Mike Leonetti offers us his book, Defining Moments: Toronto Maple Leafs . Buy The Book: Amazon.ca  - Chapters - Amazon.com From The Publisher: The Toronto Maple Leafs are celebrated in Defining Moments. This book shares over 100 Maple Leaf moments that defined, started, or rejuvenated a career. This up-to-date volume of work tells the story behind each amazing player and is packed full of Hall of Famers and other great stars of the past and present. A hundred great moments in Leaf history, including over a hundred players categorized into ten themes, such as fan favourites, leadership, tough guys. Including Leafs' greatest players, such as Syl Apps, Darryl Sittler, Dave Keon, Börje Salming, Mats Sundin, Joffrey Lupul, this book brings together the greatest stories in the Toronto Maple Leaf history.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are celebrated in Toronto Maple Leafs: Their Defining Moments . This book shares over 100 Maple Leaf moments that defined, started, or rejuvenated a career. This up-to-date volume of work tells the story behind each amazing player and is packed full of Hall of Famers and other great stars of the past and present. A hundred great moments in Leaf history, including over a hundred players categorized into ten themes, such as fan favourites, leader¬ship, tough guys. Including Leafs' greatest players, such as Syl Apps, Darryl Sittler, Dave Keon, Börje Salming, Mats Sundin, Joffrey Lupul, this book brings together the greatest stories in the Toronto Maple Leaf history. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com

Mike Leonetti is back with yet another in his long line of hockey history inspired children's titles. This time his work was inspired by and titled with Crosby's Golden Goal Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Missing NHL hockey this season? Maybe Mike Leonetti's newest release  Crosby's Golden Goal  will help you rediscover your love for the game, all while spending some quality time with the children. This book relives the excitement of Sidney Crosby's "golden goal" at the 2010 Winter Olympics through the eyes of a young hockey fan. Tyler has grown disheartened with hockey too, but for different reasons. But in this fine book he  rediscovers the joy of hockey through Sidney Crosby''s famous gold medal goal. Tyler's life has always been about hockey: hockey after school, hockey on weekends, hockey on holidays... hockey, hockey, hockey. So his parents are surprised and disappointed when Tyler abandons the game he...

2012 brings us the seventh edition of the always popular Hockey Now! series by Mike Leonetti. Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com 70 NHL stars are featured in a book jam-packed with glossy in-action photos, solid biographies and interesting sidebar information. All the usual suspects are featured - Sidney Crosby, Steven Stamkos, Zdeno Chara, the Sedin twins, Evgeni Malkin and Jonathan Toews who is prominently featured on the cover. First time additions include Jamie Benn, Jordan Eberle, Loui Eriksson, Gabriel Landeskog, Max Pacioretty, Jason Pominville, Carey Price, Pekka Rinne and Ryan Suter. This is always a safe holiday gift to buy the hockey fan of any age on your shopping list.

Mike Leonetti combines his love for hockey history with the Harold Barkley photo archives to bring us Titans of '72: Team Canada's Summit Series Heroes Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's more from the publisher: Phil and Tony Esposito, Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Frank and Peter Mahovlich, Ron Ellis, Yvan Cournoyer, Rod Gilbert, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lapointe, Stan Mikita, Brad Park - these are some of the Team Canada heroes who struggled mightily to defeat the Soviet Union's formidable superstars. For most of September 1972, Canadians were riveted to their television screens in what became one of the most-watched events in Canadian history. At first, in Canada, the Canadians floundered so badly, losing two games and tying one, that it seemed impossible to overcome the embarrassment of total defeat. But in Moscow, after losing another match, Team Canada turned the tables on the Soviets, winning an amazing three games in a row to take the Sum...

Long time readers of this website know I am a huge fan of Mike Leonetti's long running hockey history themed children's books. 2011 sees the newest book to the series - The Magnificent Mario Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com The book is also available in French This time around the illustrations are provided by a fellow named Gary Chatterton. He takes the series of a books to an amazing new level with the life-like illustrations are simply amazing. If nothing else, just crack the spine of this book to admire the art work. . Product Description : A young hockey player learns the value of playing one's best — no matter what the circumstances — from real-life hockey hero Mario Lemieux! Tyler is already a big Mario Lemieux fan, but he still loves looking at his dad's memento — Mario's rookie card — and hearing about how Mario started out with the worst team in the NHL. Tyler is also on the worst team in his league, and losing so often gets v...

The Original Six are hot these days. The Bruins and Blackhawks have won the last two Stanley Cups. The Red Wings are the class of hockey in recent years. Montreal and Toronto always have undying support, and quietly the Rangers are one of hockey's better teams right now. That makes for a great time for a book about hockey's glory days when these six teams were the only ones around. Enter Hockey's Original 6 . Written by Mike Leonetti, the book really is a beautiful showcase of the late Howard Barkley's hockey photography. Buy the Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's more from the publisher: "The hockey stars of the 1950s and '60s—Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Dave Keon, Bobby Hull, Jean Beliveau, Terry Sawchuk, Tim Horton, and others—were some of the most passionate players in National Hockey League history. These skillful and often colorful athletes played exhilarating hockey and were national heroes in a time when only six teams and fewer...

Prolific author Mike Leonetti is back with the new book Defining Moments: 100 Inspirational Moments about 100 Great Players . Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com I will be adding more about this title as information becomes available. It is published by Red Deer Press .

2010 brings the sixth edition of the very popular series Hockey Now! by Mike Leonetti. Aimed at younger fans and newer fans, Leonetti looks at the best players in the game today in this book complete with lavish photography. The series seems to run every other year. There is little change from edition to edition, except for presentation and selection of players. The hottest players in today's game are all featured. Hockey Now! is always a pleasing book, full of glossy colour photography, interesting side bar facts and quality biographies of all of today's stars. This book is always a hit with youth and teenage hockey fans, as well as novice adult fans. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca -  Chapters - Amazon.com Here's the specs: Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Firefly Books; Sixth Edition edition (Aug 1 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1554076390 ISBN-13: 978-1554076390 Here's more information from Firefly , the publisher: Hockey Now! provides hockey fa...

In what appears to be the first in a series of new titles from Scholastic, veteran childrens/young adult author Mike Leonetti offers us Hockey Greats: Awesome Centres . The book, aimed at ages 9 through 12, looks at the lives and careers of three of hockey's greatest players: Jean Beliveau, Wayne Gretzky and Vincent Lecavalier. The 110 pages are full of surprisingly in depth biographies and color photos as well as statistics and facts. The book is very eye catching and, despite the lack of contemporary star players, the book is sure to be a hit with its intended audience. Knowing nothing about the book previously, I was surprised, almost disappointed, that only three centers were featured. Why not include today's biggest star Sidney Crosby? Or why not the amazing story of cancer survivor Mario Lemieux? As pleased as I was about the quality of the features presented, I would have liked to have seen more players profiled. I suppose that would have come at the expense of spa...

Celebrated children's author Mike Leonetti returns, with side kick illustrator Greg Banning by his side, for the next installment of his hockey history-themed children's books. This time he's back with The Mighty Tim Horton .  Buy the book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com This is the latest in long line of hockey history themed children's books by Leonetti. He has the formula down perfectly. The aspiring hockey dreams of our young lead character Trevor are heightened by a chance meeting with his favorite player - Tim Horton of the Leafs. The storyline is inspiring and well done, ready to be enjoyed by your children and yourself as your own hockey memories come back. As always, Banning's illustrations are incredibly realistic and a treat to enjoy on their own. I've never quite understood why kids would want to read a book about a hockey star they've never heard of before. But every kid in Canada knows of Tim Hortons, the iconic coffee and don...

For a good stretch of time in the 1980s hockey's two best teams came from small cities in the oil rich Canadian prairies of Alberta. The Wayne Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers and the always scrappy underdog Calgary Flames battled for hockey supremacy even though the two teams could never meet in the Stanley Cup finals. Some of my finest hockey memories of my youth came from the Battle of Alberta. Gretzky's slap shot over Mike Vernon's shoulder in overtime. Theo Fleury dramatically matching that a few years later. Dave Semenko and Tim Hunter wrestling, Marty McSorley spearing Mike Bullard, and Craig MacTavish and the whole Harvey the Hound tongue incident. Of course who will ever forget Steve Smith's goal. So it comes as no surprise when I say I am very excited by Mike Leonetti's new title, The Battle of Alberta Trivia Book by Red Deer Press. Buy The Book - Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Here's the specs: Paperback: 190 pages Publisher: Red Deer P...

Author Mike Leonetti is back with his line of hockey history books aimed at children. In 2009 he has teamed up once again with illustrator Greg Banning to bring us The Rocket , the story of Maurice Richard. Buy the book: | Amazon.ca - Chapters | Full Book Review The book is also available in Canada in French: | Amazon.ca - Chapters | I had the chance to interview the prolific author Leonetti about his new book: 1. You are a well established hockey author who has really embraced writing books aimed at children and youth. Why are you so interested in this audience? When I was youngster I loved just about any book on hockey but in those days there was not much directed at children and youth. I think my kids’ books fill that void today very nicely. The books help to get kids (especially boys) reading at a young age because they like the subject matter. The sooner kids start reading the better off they will be and it will help them improve their communication skills from an early age. ...

Author Mike Leonetti is back with his line of hockey history books aimed at children. In 2009 he has teamed up once again with illustrator Greg Banning to bring us The Rocket , the story of Maurice Richard. Buy the book: | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | The book is also available in Canada in French: | Amazon.ca - Chapters | Previous history-themed children's titles by Leonetti include Wendel and The Great One , Maple Leafs A-Z , Gretzky's Game , The Greatest Goal , The Goalie Mask , Number Four, Bobby Orr! , A Hero Named Howe and My Leafs Sweater . I am always impressed that publishers take a chance on a children's series devoted to hockey players from decades ago. But clearly the series is a success. You better make room for another hit on your bookshelves, because Leonetti's magic is in full force in The Rocket. Leonetti tells the story of Rocket Richard through an aspiring young hockey player named Andre. Andre loves the Rocket, and he loves to play hocke...

Firefly Books and super-author Mike Leonetti return with the fifth edition of the annual book Hockey Now! Buy The Book: Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com Hockey Now! celebrates the best players in hockey today. Hockey's most dynamic stars are all profiled, including Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, Jarome Iginla, Martin Brodeur, Roberto Luongo, Vincent Lecavalier, Ilya Kovalchuk, Dion Phaneuf and Zdeno Chara. In total there are 74 profiled superstars in the 176 glossy paged softcover 5th edition. Each superstar is fully featured with a 2 page well-written biography and the exciting and rich photography. I really liked the sharp, clean hockey card layout. Career statistics might be a nice addition, but the fun facts box insert is a great touch. This fast-paced book is an excellent Christmas gift idea for any puck enthusiast, but especially for the younger or newer/casual hockey fans on your shopping list. That being said, hardcore hockey fans should also consider this title. I...

Hockey super-author Mike Leonetti annually releases a children's title. Previous titles include Gretzky's Game , The Greatest Goal , The Goalie Mask , Number Four, Bobby Orr! , A Hero Named Howe , Maple Leafs A-Z and the incredibly successful franchise starter My Leafs Sweater . I'm a big proponent of spreading hockey history as Leonetti continues to do, though sometimes I'm surprised today's kids under the age 10 of ten would be interested beyond the great illustrations. But Leonetti usually works the hockey history into a story about a fictional youngster that today's readers can relate to. Leonetti mixes that formula perfectly in his 2008 title Wendel and The Great One . It is published by Scholastic and features the excellent illustrations of Greg Banning. Leonetti's historical focus is on the classic 1993 playoff series between the LA Kings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. It is a smart topic, as it allows the writer and publisher to cash in on Gretzky and...