Description: Includes a DVD that contains "The Sweater," narrated by Roch Carrier and directed by Sheldon Cohen, copyright 1980, based on the story "An Abominable Maple Leaf on the Ice," by Roch Carrier.
Review Quotes: One of Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Canadian Children's and YA Books
PRAISE FOR The Hockey Sweater "Stephen Harper said the book 'still touches the hearts of Canadian hockey fans, young and old.' . . . Justin Trudeau, who would become Prime Minister, called it 'an iconic depiction of a truly Canadian experience.'" --Roy Macgregor, Globe and Mail"It's a classic. . . . You can't really be a Canadian and not read it. It's become part of our cultural lexicon." --Canadian Children's Book News "[N]ot only sweet and funny, but a wise parable about Quebec and English Canada." --Toronto Star ". . . Roch Carrier's timeless book about a boy's catalogue snafu resonated across this hockey-mad country -- because who didn't understand the horror of receiving the enemy's hockey sweater in the mail?" --Faceoff.com "[A] true-life parable woven so deeply into the national fabric that it's hard to conceive of a time when it wasn't there." --Toronto Sun