A very Canadian children’s book. Loved reading it and feeling at home. Wonderful illustrations. Would recommend to everyone.

When Lucy is ice staking with her family, she sees a hockey game going on and decides she'd like to try playing hockey. Enrolling in a hockey clinic, Lucy starts learning hockey basics and has fun playing a new sport.

Bright, colorful illustrations and simple text encourage kids to try sports and to be active. I love the fact that this is a series of books featuring an athletic girl trying out a variety of sports. I hadn't read any of the Lucy Tries books before, but I'll happily be looking for more now.

I read a copy from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

4 stars.

"Lucy Tries Hockey" is an adorable picture book about Lucy, a little girl that loves to ice skate. One day while skating with her friends and parents, she sees a group of children playing ice hockey. Lucy asks her parents if she can try hockey and they support her decision to try the new sport. This book goes through some of the hockey basics that young children might see if they try ice hockey themselves (learning how to fall, drills, how to shoot the puck, etc.). Lucy quickly realizes that she likes hockey and decides she wants to play on a team with her friends.
As an avid hockey lover myself, and mother of three daughters, I absolutely loved this book. There are many times that certain sports (football and hockey especially) come across as "boy" sports. I love that the main character is a girl and she sets out to prove that ice hockey is a sport that can be played by girls as well! I also really loved how her parents were supportive of Lucy trying new sports. The illustrations are vibrant and really bring the message of this wonderful book to life. This would be a wonderful addition to any home or school library as it sends the message that yes, girls can, too!
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this adorable book in exchange for my honest review.!

A fun book geared to get girls interested in Hockey. Traditionally thought of as a boy’s sport, hockey wants girls to know they can play too. The book rhymes, and shows good sportsmanship and even includes some info bits at the end. Overall a very success read.

“Lucy Tries Hockey” was great! I liked seeing a girl as the main character, and appreciated that she had diverse friends. However, some of the rhymes were a little unintuitive. Once the reader practices, s/he’ll get the hang of it quickly, though.

Lucy Tries Hockey is a good book to get children interested and wondering about hockey and trying new things. My son loved the book.

This was a cute book about a girl learning to play hockey. I really liked the rhyming pose. The picture were big and colorful. Would be great for a sports themed storytime.
I received an ARC of the book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Back when I was a kid, before Title 9, in the United States, girls were not encouraged to play sports, because, well, it was for men, I guess. We could be cheerleaders, or play individual sports, such as tennis, and golf, but none of that teamwork stuff.

So this book, about a little girl wanting to play hockey, is apparently one in a series of books about Lucy being interested in a sport, and getting to play it. As you can see by the picture below, the colors are bright, the text is easy to read, and Lucy is having a lot of fun.

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I love that it is perfectly normal, in this book, for a little girl to want to play hockey, and no one to make a big fuss about her being a girl. What a great way to introduce girls and boys to, to this winter sport.


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This story is about a Canadian girl named Lucy who tries out hockey. I literally loved everything about this book. Kids always love when a book rhymes and this book delivers! It would be a great book to use when teaching rhyming to students. I love the storyline and how the main character was a girl who tries out hockey. The majority of books about hockey have a male main character so it was fantastic to see one with a girl. The pictures in this book were excellent and I love how the text complimented the pages. This book would definitely hold students’ attention and I can’t wait to share it with my class.

Lucy and her parents are skating on the pond when they see some kids playing hockey. Lucy is excited and asks her parents if she can play hockey. They say yes and sign her up with a group of children learning how to play hockey with a great coach. She gets all the equipment she needs to be safe and learns the drills including warming-up, speed up, hopping lines, touching their knees, and so on as well as shooting the puck and puck handling. She loves it, especially when she gets the puck in the net.

This is a wonderful book to encourage kids to get involved in sports whether it is a traditional male or female sport. With so many women and girls playing hockey now, it was great to see a book about this sport geared to girls. It is written in rhyming cadence and the illustrations enrich the text greatly. This book is a winner. A great book to be in home, class, school and public libraries.

Lucy is out skating on the pond one day with her family and discovers some kids playing hockey. Excitedly she asks her parents if she could try playing too. They respond:

"Of course!"
"We support what you do."

They connect her with a reputable hockey coach and sign her up to learn introductory skills in the sport. She of course needs to have the proper gear to wear to ensure her safety on the ice.

She is super excited to join the other hockey hopefuls as they warm-up, speed up, hop lines, touch their knees, fall forward properly, practise tricky stick handling, and shoot the puck into the net, just to name a few. It's hard work but everyone that participates loves the challenges set before them.

Will Lucy's enthusiasm continue as she goes through the many drills and learns the appropriate rules of the game? Can she be successful at this new sport and find it exhilarating and fun? Will she make new friends that she can play hockey with too after her training is complete?

This wonderful, inspirational book encourages kids to get involved in sports and to get outside and play. It is written in rhyme and the illustrations enrich the text greatly. Kids love team sports and getting them involved can literally change not only their health but build their self-confidence and self-worth too. This book SCORES BIG !!!!

A kind of forgettable picture book about a girl who tries hockey. There's not much to this picture book at all, so it won't keep the interest of older kids. The only redeeming quality is that the main character is a little girl. Otherwise it is pretty boring.

This adorable picture book is PERFECT.

Most children's books with a hockey theme feature a male child as the main character. I love the fact that this book features a girl.

Lucy is a Canadian girl and what sport could be more Canadian than hockey?

Girl's and Women's hockey is more popular now than it has ever been. Books like this one will further boost the female participation in girl's hockey. This is a VERY good thing.

Don't misunderstand me. This book is not exclusively for girls. Boys will enjoy it too.

With its message of participation in physical activity, this book also encourages kids to try new things. The target readership of the LUCY TRIES SPORTS series is children ages 4 to 8. During these formative years, children are very impressionable. This makes it the ideal age to instill in children a love of sports and of being active. 

Illustrator James Hearne has done an incredible job of creating a character that is cute, but not cutesy, that is girlish, but not girly, and one that is easily recognizable. This means that the LUCY TRIES SPORTS books will stand out from all other children's books. The bright colors and clean lines of the illustrations enhance the story with perfection.

I rate LUCY TRIES HOCKEY as 5 out of 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and I will be purchasing copies of every book in this series to give as Christmas presents this year.

The bonus to the fact that this is an amazing book, is the fact that the author is Canadian and I love to support Canadian talent.

This is a fun picture book about a young girl learning to play hockey. The pictures are bright and colorful and I appreciate that the children in the book have many skin tones. The text is rhyming and incorporates hockey terms. This is going to be the perfect gift for my niece!

Lucy discovers a new sport while ice skating. She decides to give hockey a try.

This is a cute picture book. It contains catchy rhyming text and bright, colorful pictures. I like the different colored text that helps to bring out certain words. It gives a good message about trying new things.
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Lucy Tries Hockey by Lisa Bowes
Illustrations by: James Hearne
Publisher: Orca Books
ISBN: 9781459816947
Publishe Date: September 18, 2018

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher Orca Books for the ebook ARC of Lucy Tries Hockey by Lisa Bowes and illustrated by James Hearne in exchange for an honest review.

Lucy and her family are skating on an outdoor rink when she sees a hockey game going on.
Lucy thinks it looks like fun! Being supported by her parents, they enroll Lucy into an introductory hockey clinic. Lucy and her team mates learn the basic hockey skills thanks to the encouraging instructor. They have fun and add hockey to their list of favourite sports!

I give this book a rating of 5 stars. I read it to my 4 year old daughter and she really enjoyed it. The story was cute and I really liked the colourful illustrations. I like how the books encourage children to participate in playing sports.
Be sure to check out what Lucy will try next, visit www.lucytriessports.com.

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Also available in French (9781459820036).