Hockey Night in Kenya

By Danson Mutinda, Eric Walters and Claudia Dávila

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 roller blades, 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?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Oct 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781459823631

Danson Mutinda

Danson Mutinda’s parents, Ruth and Henry Kyatha, co-founded the Hope Development Centre orphanage with Eric and Anita Walters in 2007. When Henry passed away, Dansen became patron of the program. He and his co-author, Eric Walters, worked together to write this story of two energetic and joyful children who are based on many of the children they work with at the centre. Danson lives in Kikima, Kenya, on the grounds of the orphanage.

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Text copyright © Danson Mutinda and Eric Walters 2020

Illustrations copyright © Claudia Dávila 2020

Printed in Canada and the United States in 2020 by Orca Book Publishers.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Hockey night in Kenya / Danson Mutinda, Eric Walters ; illustrated by Claudia Dávila.

Names: Mutinda, Danson, author. | Walters, Eric, 1957– author. | Dávila, Claudia, illustrator.

Series: Orca echoes.

Description: Series statement: Orca echoes

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200184660 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200184679 |

ISBN

9781459823617 (softcover) |

ISBN

9781459823624 (

PDF

) | ISBN 9781459823631 (

EPUB

) Classification:

LCC

PR

9381.9.

M

86

H

63 2020 |

DDC

j823/.92—dc23

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020931809

Summary: In this illustrated short chapter book, two Kenyan orphans get to experience the joy of playing ice hockey.

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Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs provided by the following agencies: the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

Cover artwork and interior illustrations by Claudia Dávila

Printed and bound in Canada.

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For Henry, a dear father and friend.

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Contents

The Story Behind the Story

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

The Story

Behind the Story

While the story about Kitoo and Nigosi is made up, there is a great deal of truth in it.

It takes place in the Republic of Kenya, a country that sits directly on the equator. This is perhaps one of the last countries in which you would expect ice hockey