Written By: Peter Norman

Get in the game with stories about hockey’s biggest stars—perfect for bedtime and on the go!

5-Minute Hockey Stories: All-Star Edition is packed with a dozen stories about hockey’s biggest stars, including Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Nick Suzuki, Mitch Marner, Marie-Philip Poulin and Sarah Nurse. Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in five minutes—ideal for young fans and future stars!

Written By: Jael Richardson | Contributor: Eva Perron

It’s the day of the first hockey game and Kareema is about to take a big step into the locker room and into the world of hockey. Overwhelmed and unsure of what’s ahead, Kareema enters the change room and meets her new teammates — a group of young players who are also wondering if they will fit in with the team and find their place in the game. When their coach arrives with a bag full of brand new uniforms and hands each player their jersey, Kareema and her teammates will discover something special while they get dressed for the game. As they take to the ice in their new uniforms, ready to play for the first time, Kareema will realize something unique about the game of hockey as her biggest fans cheer on. The Hockey Jersey is part of Scotiabank’s hockey for all initiative and the mission to make hockey more diverse, inclusive, and accessible for all Canadians.

Written By: Rachel Kehoe with Wanda Robson

Years before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up a bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Viola Desmond took a similar stand against racial segregation in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

On November 8, 1946, she was arrested for refusing to move from the "whites-only" section of a movie theater. Her heroic act inspired Black community leaders and made her a symbol of courage in the fight against inequality. This story of Viola's life is based on rare interviews with her sister Wanda Robson, who spent her life championing her sister's story and was successful in getting Viola a posthumous pardon that recognized she was innocent of any crime. From their childhood in Nova Scotia to Viola's career as a teacher in a segregated school and, later, her role as a pioneer in Black beauty culture, young readers are introduced to the girl and the woman who went on to become the face of the civil-rights movement in Canada.

Written By: Khodi Dill

Little Black Lives Matter empowers all children, but Black children especially, by affirming that their lives, however little they may yet be, matter. Featuring fifteen great Black heroes of the past and the powerful words they spoke and actions they took, Little Black Lives Matter is a rhyming board book that incorporates memorable quotations and a reminder to little ones that each of these great people once lived a little Black life themselves.

Personal piece. 2023.

How I found the freedom hockey promised by escaping the game entirely By Tess McWatt

Illustrations for various articles featured on ROOKIE Magazine.

AD: Lena Singer