Hockey Night in Kenya
Written and Illustrated by Danson Mutinda, Eric Walters, Claudia Dávila
Published by Orca Book Publishers
Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, spend their days studying, playing soccer, helping their elders
with chores around the orphanage and reading from the limited selection of books in their library.
When the librarian gives Kitoo a copy of Sports Around the World he becomes fascinated by an
image of the Canadian national men's ice hockey team. Then one day the fates align and Kitoo finds a pair of beat-up old rollerblades, he teaches himself to skate and dreams of one day playing hockey like the men in his book. But you can’t play ice hockey in Kenya, can you?
1 comment:
Kate - John McCrae PS
I'd give it 8/10
I really liked this book. Because even if you're in a hot place you can still play games you play in cold places, like hockey. By using rollerskates instead of ice skates and using a tennis ball instead of a puck. That's creative. I learned that, even if you're living in an orphanage, that doesn't mean you can't do things that people who have homes can. Some of the parts of the book I didn't get (why they had to make rollerblades & couldn't buy them), so I wanted more detail about that.
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