Isobel's Stanely Cup
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More than anything, Isobel Harkness want to play hockey with her older brothers. But it's 1893, and a lot of people - including her father - think hockey is only for boys.
Ignoring her father's wishes, Isobel helps her brothers train for an upcoming game. And she begins to shine on the ice. When she meets Isobel Stanley, one of the first women to play hocky, young Isobel gets some great advice.
Inspired by true accounts of Isobel Stanley's role in the history of hockey, Isobel's Stanley Cup proves that hockey has always been a game for girls.
Kristin Butcher
Kristin Butcher is the author of several books for young readers, including The Trouble with Liberty and The Hemingway Tradition in the Orca Soundings collection. Kristin lives in Campbell River, British Columbia.
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Isobel's Stanely Cup - Kristin Butcher
Papa Says No
Isobel circled the dining table, banging down knives and forks and throwing the napkins onto the plates. She could hear her brothers in the other room. She could smell them too. Well, not them, exactly. But she could smell the fresh winter air they had brought indoors after their snowball fight.
She had watched them through the window as she’d dusted the sitting room.
It looked like such fun. She had wanted to play too. But according to Papa, throwing snowballs wasn’t a suitable activity for a young lady. Neither was hockey, and Isobel wanted to do that more than anything.
She hated having to be a young lady. It was boring. Boys had all the fun.
Isobel might have been happier if she’d had a sister to do things with. But she didn’t. All she had were five brothers. To make matters worse, they were all older.
She sighed. All she ever got to do was help her mother with chores. It was so unfair. She didn’t want to embroider pillow slips and fold laundry. She wanted to play hockey with her brothers.
As she put out the water glasses, she made her mind up. She would ask Papa one more time.
Drawing of a young girl scowling at the dinner table. She is sitting beside her father who is reading the paper.Isobel glared at the newspaper hiding her father’s face.
It’s not fair!
She pouted.
Mama shook her head in warning, and Isobel’s brothers stopped eating. Their eyes bugged out as they stared at their little sister. No one ever spoke back to Papa.
Papa lowered his Ottawa Citizen and put it down beside his plate. Then he took off his spectacles and laid them down too.
He frowned at Isobel. The world is not always fair, Isobel. You will find that out soon enough. But this is not about fairness. It’s about what is proper. Some activities are meant for boys and some for girls. It’s as simple as that. Hockey is a boys’ game. It is not suitable for young ladies.
Why not?
Isobel demanded. I can skate as good as Billy and Matt.
"As well as Billy and Matt," her mother corrected her.
Isobel heaved a frustrated sigh. "As well as Billy and Matt. So why shouldn’t I be allowed to play?"
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