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Coffee-table book, but with much interesting text, including a genuine history of competitive skating. I have the Canadian dust-jacket, featuring Elvis Stojko.
The season in question is 1995-1996, when the World Championships were in Edmonton. It was also one of the peak years - perhaps *the* peak year - in professional skating, and the one in which Sergei Grinkov passed away. Smith concentrates mostly on the eligible scene, but this book has a chapter in...
Not a series of fairly short attributed quotes, like Steve Milton's "Skate Talk" of the same year, but a cohesive analysis. Easiest summary is to give the chapter titles: "And God Created Parents"; "A Master at Work: Bootmaker for the Stars"; "Coaches: the Guiding Force"; "Powdered Sugar: Makeup on...
For detailed biographical information, or analysis of the Salt Lake City judging scandal, the full-length book "The Second Mark" is a better place to go - but this is a truly lovely picture book, with enough literate text to cover the basics of the story (it's not really a juvenile, though it's of t...
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