hockey fever in goganne falls

By R.J. Childerhose

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0770510426
• ISBN13: 9780770510428
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Macmillan Canada
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the Finest Hockey Story for Boys ever Written

Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls is surely the finest hockey story for children ever written. Situated in the small northern Ontario town of Goganne Falls, it follows a group of boys as they form a hockey team, convince an alcoholic one-time pro player to coach them, and play a competitive game against a quasi-professional, and much bigger, team from the big city. In addition to being an exciting read for all ages, the hero of the story is an Indian boy (i.e. a First Nations boy) whom several boys meet one afternoon while skipping school and playing pool. The portrayal of this boy, and his much respected war veteran father, is one of the first truly positive portrayals of an aboriginal Canadian child in Canadian literature, and is especially interesting because he has nothing of the wooden, "noble savage" types one finds, for instance, in books such as Susannah of the Mounties. The book is also a delight because of the coach's defense of the virtues of 'old-time hockey'.