We get in position, about to start, around us the thumps of every heart—the hearts on the ice and the ones that came to watch an amazing hockey game. Third in Loris Lesynski’s popular Crazy About series, is this new collection all about hockey. In more than 25 bouncy poems, Lesynski’s signature humor and style shine through as she captures the joys, thrills, and challenges of one of the most popular sports in North America. As with their previous collaborations, Crazy About Soccer! and Crazy About Basketball!, Lesynski and Rasmussen combine wonderfully ridiculous artwork and catchy, rhythmic poems to highlight both the silly and serious side of the sport, with emphasis on training, tactics, and teamwork, but most of all, on having fun. Crazy About Hockey! is sure to appeal to enthusiastic players—and fans—of the sport everywhere. What’s more, a new generation of hockey lovers will come to enjoy poetry.

LORIS LESYNSKI is a bestselling author of brilliantly funny poems, and a frequent visitor to schools where she gets kids excited about poetry. She lives in Toronto, ON.

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Betty is the creation of writer Gary Delainey and illustrator Gerry Rasmussen, a cartooning duo from Edmonton, Alberta.

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