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Cafe le Dog: Stories
Matt Cohen
Reviewed by Joan VanSickle
Grades 12 and up
1984 March

Cakes and Frostings With Schmecks Appeal
Edna Staebler
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Adult
1991 September

Call Back
Sara Woods
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow
Brian Fawcett
Reviewed by Vivienne Denton
Adult
1987 November

Canada: 1900-1945
Robert Bothwell
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 12 and up
1987 November

Canada, 1922-1939: Decades of Discord
John Herd Thompson and Allen Seager
Reviewed by Keith Wilson
Grades 12 and up
1985 September

Canada, 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation
J.L. Granatstein
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grade 12 and up
1986 July

Canada 1984: A Time of Transition Among Nations
Brian W. Tomlin and Maureen Molot (Edited by)
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 12 and up
1985 September

Canada Among Nations: A World of Conflict
Maureen Appel Molot
Reviewed by Charles Ottosen
Post-Secondary
1989 January

Canada and the Birth of Israel: A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy
David J. Bercuson
Reviewed by John Harkness
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Canada: Land of Physical Diversity
Doreen M. Tomkins
Reviewed by Susan E. Fowler
Professional
1983 July

Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914
Alan Metcalfe
Reviewed by John Mitchell
Grades 12 and up
1987 July

Canada, My Canada: What Happened?
Laurier L. LaPierre
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Post-secondary
1993 January

Canada and the New Constitution: the Unfinished Agenda, Volumer 1 and 2
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Post-Secondary
1984 September

Canada as a Principal Power: a Study of Foreign Policy and International Relations
David B. Dewitt and John J. Kirton
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Post-Secondary
1983 September

Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis in the Canadian-American Relationship
Stephen Clarkson
Reviewed by Keith Wilson
Post-Secondary
1983 March

Canada's Cultural Industries: Broadcasting, Publishing, Records and Film
Paul Audley
Reviewed by Adèle Ashby
Post-Secondary
1983 July

Canada's Economic Strategy
James Lexer
Reviewed by Don C. Barnett
Post-Secondary
1982 November

Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding People from Earliest Times
Olive Dickason
Reviewed by David Chadwick
Adult
1992 October

Canada's North: the Reference Manual
Reviewed by Fred May
Grades 11 and up
1984 May

Canada's Oil and the American Empire
Ed Shaffer
Reviewed by George Gereben
Grades 12 and up
1983 September

Canada's Party of Socialism: History of the Communist Party of Canada 1921-1976
Reviewed by David Remski
Post-Secondary
1983 May

Canadian Books for Children: A Guide to Authors and Illustrators
Jon Stott and Raymond Jones
Reviewed by P.J. Hammel
Professional
1989 May

Canadian Books for Young People/Livres Canadiens Pour La Jeunesse, 4th Edition
André Gagnon and Ann Gagnon (Edited by)
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
1988 November

Canadian Collections in Public Libraries
Francess G. Halpenny
Reviewed by Adele Ashby
Professional
1986 July

Canadian Connections: Experiencing Literature with Children
Ron Jobe and Paula Hart
Reviewed by Gail Lennon
Adult/Professional
1992 March

Canadian Curriculum Issues in Perspective (1970-1980)
Patrick Babin
Reviewed by Clare A. Darby
Professional
1982 September

Canadian Do-It-Yourself: the Magazine for Handy People
Reviewed by C. Naslund
Grades 9 and up
1984 September

The Canadian Education Association 1957-1977
Freeman K. Stewart
Reviewed by Andrew Pope
Professional
1982 November

Canadian Education in the 1980s
J. Donald Wilson (Edited by)
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Professional
1982 September

Canadian Education: a Sociological Analysis
Allan J. Macdonell and Wilfred B. W. Martin
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Post-Secondary
1983 July

The Canadian Entertainers of World War II
W. Ray Stephens
Reviewed by Irene Gordon
Adult
1994 September

Canadian Ethnicity: the Politics of Meaning
T. Aoki, J. Dahlie and W. Werner
Reviewed by Susan Merrick
Professional
1982 November

Canadian Fitness Sourcebook: Organizations and Resource Materials.
Government of Canada
Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger
Professional
1989 May

Canadian Poetry: Index to Criticism, 1970-1979/Poesie Canadienne: Index de Critiques, 1970-1979
Phyllis Platnick
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Professional
1985 November

Canadian Political Babble: A Cynic's Dictionary of Political Jargon
David Olive
Reviewed by Marsha Kaiserman
Adult
1994 Jan/Feb

Canadian Politics: A Comparative Reader
Ronald G. Landes
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Post-Secondary
1985 September

The Canadian Polity: a Comparative Introduction
Ronald G. Landes
Reviewed by David Remski
Post-Secondary
1983 September

A Canadian Social Studies
Geoff Milburn, Jim Parsons and Max van Manen (Edited by)
Reviewed by Keith Wilson
Professional
1984 November

Canadian Songbirds and Their Ways
Jim Rising and Trudy Rising
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Post-Secondary
1983 January

The Canadian Symbols Kit
Department of the Secretary of State
Reviewed by Alma Webster
All Grades
1987 July

The Canadian Writer's Guide
Reviewed by Phyllis James
Post-Secondary
1986 January

The Canadian Writer's Handbook
William E. Messenger and Jan De Bruyn
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Post-Secondary
1986 July

Canadian Writers and Their Works, Fiction Series, Vol. IV
Edited by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
Reviewed by L. Maingon
Professional
1991 September

Canadian Writers and Their Works, Poetry Series, Vol. IV
Edited by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
Reviewed by Don Precosky
Professional
1991 September

Canadian Writers and Their Works. Poetry Series: Volume Five
Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley (Edited by)
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

Canadian Writers and Their Works, Poetry Series, Vol. VII
Edited by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Professional
1991 September

Canadian Writers and Their Works. Poetry Series: Volume Nine
Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley (Edited by)
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

The Canadians
Andrew H. Malcolm
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Post-Secondary
1985 September

Canadians and Their Economy: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Barry Lesser and Bruce Roald
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Professional
1982 November

Canadide: A Patriotic Satire
Eric Nicol
Reviewed by Jim Delaney
Adult
1984 January

The Canlit Foodbook
Margaret Atwood (Compiled and illustrated by)
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Adult
1988 July

Capital Tales
Brian Fawcett
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

Career Information: a Bibliography of Publications About Careers in Canada
James Huffman and Sybil Huffman
Reviewed by Roger Lang
Professional
1982 November

The Case of Valentine Shortis
Martin L. Friedland
Reviewed by E. Balpataky
Post-Secondary
1987 March

CASNP Resource/Reading List
Catherine Verrall
Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner
Professional
1983 September

Catchpenny Poems
David Helwig
Reviewed by Joan VanSickle
Grades 12 and up
1984 September

Caught in Amber
Leila Pepper
Reviewed by Donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

The Cave of Trophonius and Other Poems
Francis Sparshott.
Reviewed by Sister Anne Leonard
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About Women
Edited by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Adult
1989 July

A Celebration
Ludwig Zeller
Reviewed by Wendy Carter
Grades 12 and up
1988 March

Celestial Navigation: Poems
Paulette Jiles
Reviewed by Donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Ann Ireland
Reviewed by Catherine Creede
Adult
1986 March

Champlain
Joe C.W. Armstrong
Reviewed by Adele Case
Adult
1988 May

The Changing of the Guard: How the Liberals Fell from Grace and the Tories Rose to Power
Norman Snider
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

Changing Patterns: Women in Canada
Sandra Burt (Edited By)
Reviewed by Catharine Joan MacDonnell
Post-secondary
1989 January

Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Women in Seventeenth-Century New France
Karen Anderson
Reviewed by Donna J. Adrian
Professional
1992 January

The Character of Class Struggle
Bryan D. Palmer (Edited by)
Reviewed by J.D. Ingram
Post-Secondary
1987 January

Charades
Janette Turner Hospital
Reviewed by Barbara Camfield
Adult/Secondary
1989 May

Charles Baillairge, Architect & Engineer
Christina Cameron
Reviewed by Jean Farquharson
Post-secondary/Adult
1989 July

Charlie Farquharson, Yer Last Decadent
Don Harron
Reviewed by Jim Delaney
Adult
1983 March

The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada
Michael Mandel
Reviewed by Grace Shaw
Post-secondary/Adult
1989 September

Chasing Her Own Tail
Nora Keeling
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Adult
1985 September

Check it Out! The Essential, Indespensable Guide to Children's Video
Fiona Zippan and Doug Atkinson
Reviewed by Christine Jacobs
Adult / Professional
1994 March/April

The Childcare Crisis: The Real Costs of Daycare For You-And Your Child
Fredelle Maynard
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

Child Development: Readings for Teachers
Claudio Violato and Anthony Marini
Reviewed by Gail Lennon
Professional
1990 March

The Child Hero in the Canadian Novel
Theresia Quigley
Reviewed by Kenneth Field
Post-secondary
1992 September

Children First: Planning an Early Childhood Program
Marie Innes
Reviewed by Grace E. Funk
Professional
1985 November

Children and Peacemaking
Peace Education Resource Centre
Reviewed by Maryleah Otto
Professional
1992 October

Children's Choices of Canadian Books
Jane Charlton
Reviewed by Grace E. Funk
Professional
1986 July

Children's Choices of Canadian Books, Vol III
Margaret Caughey (Edited by)
Reviewed by Sue Eases
Professional
1984 November

China: Shockwaves
Nancy-Gay Rotstein
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Adult
1988 January

Choosing Childrens' Books
David Booth, Larry Swartz and Meguido Zola
Reviewed by Adèle Ashby
Professional
1989 May

The Choral Conductor's Art
Earle Terry
Reviewed by Kenneth Field
Professional
1992 September

Chronicles of Pride: A Teacher Resource Guide
Patricia Richardson Logie, Lila Burdett Kilroy and Valerie Overgaard
Reviewed by Patricia Fry
Professional
1992 May

The Circus Performers' Bar
David Arnason
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Post-Secondary
1985 September

City in the Making: Progress, People and Perils in Victorian Toronto
F.H. Armostrong
Reviewed by Adele Ashby
Adult/Post-secondary
1989 May

Class Acts: Etiquette for Today
Eve Drobot
Reviewed by Caroline E. Young
Post-Secondary
1984 November

Class Discussions for Teachers and Counsellors in Elementary School
John A. B. Allan and Judith Nairne
Reviewed by Glenn DiPasquale
Professional
1984 November

Classification of Living Things: a Teacher's Manual for General Level Program Development Grades 7 and 8
Allan M. MacKinnon, Rosemary Mwazwita Mundangepfupfu and Douglas A. Roberts
Reviewed by Peter Freeman
Professional
1984 September

Classroom Talk
Edited by David Booth and Carol Thornley-Hall
Reviewed by Gail Lennon
Professional
1991 October

Close Pursuit
Carsten Stround
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Adult
1987 September

Cocktails at the Mausoleum
Susan Musgrave
Reviewed by Vivienne Denton
Post-Secondary
1985 November

Cold Heaven: A Novel
Brian Moore
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Adult
1983 November

The Collected Longer Poems, 1947-1977
Robin Skelton
Reviewed by Vivienne Denton
Post-Secondary
1986 September

Collected Poems
Miriam Waddington
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 12 and up
1986 September

Collected Poems: Volume Six, 1984-86
Raymond Souster
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Adult/Secondary
1989 May

Colloquium on French as a Second Language: Proceedings
Toronto Ministry of Education
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Professional
1984 November

Colombo's Canadiana Quiz Book
John Robert Colombo
Reviewed by Adèle
Grades 4 and up
1984 January

The Color of Blood
Brian Moore
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Adult
1988 March

A Comedy of Eros
Virgil Burnett
Reviewed by Patrick Dunn
Adult
1985 July

Come Good Rain
George Seremba
Reviewed by Melanie Fogel
Adult
1994 September

Comeback
Dan Hill
Reviewed by Sue Easun
Grades 12 and up
1984 May

Coming Attractions
Sheila Delaney, Frances Itani and Judith Pond
Reviewed by Anne Locatelli
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Coming Attractions
Edited by Maggie Helwig and Bronwen Wallace
Reviewed by Esther Hutchinson
Post-secondary/Adult
1990 March

Coming Attractions 5
David Helwig and Maggie Helwig (Edited by)
Reviewed by E.G. Robson
Adult
1988 July

Coming Attractions 91
Edited by Douglas Glover & Maggie Helwig
Reviewed by David Chadwick
Adult
1992 March

Coming for to Carry
Lorris Elliott
Reviewed by Philip K. Harber
Adult
1983 May

Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
Reviewed by George Seibel
Adult
1983 May

Coming up for Air
Lesley Choyce
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Adult/Secondary
1989 March

Common Threads: ESL III, Hugh John MacDonald School
Reviewed by Arne Handley
Grades 4 and up, ESL
1984 March

The Communications Lab: a Strategy to Improve Self-Concept and Interpersonal Skills
Reviewed by Glenn DiPasquale
Professional
1984 May

A Companion to Under the Volcano
Chris Ackerley and Lawrence J. Clipper
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

The Complete Good Dining Guide to Greater Vancouver Restaurants
Cyril Belshaw
Reviewed by Pia Christiansen
Adult
1985 September

The Completely Collapsible Portable Man: Selected Shorter Lyrics
J. Michael Yates
Reviewed by Pamela Black
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

Complicity
Susan Glickman
Reviewed by Donalee Moulton-Barrett
Adult
1984 May

A Comprehensive Bibliography of English-Canadian Short Stories, 1950-1983
Allan Weiss
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Professional
1990 May

Computers in Ontario Education: Report of the Pilot School Projects
Toronto Ministry of Education
Reviewed by William F. Benson
Professional
1984 November

Computers in the School: a Guide for Planning
Ronald G. Ragsdale
Reviewed by Jean Farquharson
Professional
1983 September

Concha and Rezanov
Catherine Ahearn
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Adult
1988 November

Connections: Paperback Reading for Young People
Fay Blostein
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Professional
1989 May

Connexions for Social Change: A Digest of Resources and Groups
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

The Consolidation of Capitalism 1896-1929
Michael S. Cross and Gregory S. Kealey (Edited by)
Reviewed by Paul E. Blower
Post-Secondary
1984 May

Construction Geometry
Brian Walmsley
Reviewed by P. F. Chernoff
Grades 12 and up
1984 January

Contemporary Canadian Theatre: New World Visions
Anton Wagner (Edited by)
Reviewed by Thea Todd
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Contours of Canadian Thought
A.B. McKiltop
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 12 and up
1988 March

Cooperative Education for Technical Studies
Hank Froese
Reviewed by Margaret MacLean
Professional
1986 September

Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder: A Guide For Parents and Teachers
Mary Ellen Beugin
Reviewed by Gail K. Lennon
Professional
1991 May

Coping With Junior High Guidance: A Resource Book for Teachers and Counsellors
Margaret A. Urquhart
Reviewed by Susan Ratcliffe
Professional
1986 July

Copyright: Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Library Association, June 7, 1984, Toronto, Ontario
Francoise Hébert (Edited by)
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Professional
1985 November

The Cost of Living
Kenneth Radu
Reviewed by Katheryn Broughton
Adult/Secondary
1989 January

Courtship in Canada: The New Frontier
Lili R. Bartoetti and Mario D. Bartoletti
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Post-Secondary
1986 January

The Cowards
Josef Skvorecky
Reviewed by Frank Loreto
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Craft Slices
George Bowering
Reviewed by Robert E. Wheeler
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

The Craft of student Evaluation in Canada
Leslie D. McLean
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Professional
1986 May

The Creating Word: Papers From an International Conference on the Learning and Teaching of English in the 1980s
Patricia Demers (Edited by)
Reviewed by S. Keith Ward
Professional
1986 May

Creative Still Life Photography
Bruce Pendleton
Reviewed by Ken Stagg
Post-Secondary
1983 May

Cries of Victims-Voice of God
Remi J. De Roo
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Post-Secondary
1986 July

The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Roger Lemelin
Reviewed by Anne Locatelli
Post-Secondary
1985 March

Crocus Hill Notebook
Garry Jones
Reviewed by Gail Lennon
Professional
1991 September

Cross/Cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry
Edited by Ken Norris and Peter Van Toorn
Reviewed by Philip K. Harber
Grades 12 and up
1984 March

Cruise Ships: the Inside Story
Gary Bannerman
Reviewed by David J. Young
Adult
1983 May

Cultural Ambassadors: Monitors in Core-French Classes
Vincent A. Gaudino, Leslie E. McLean and Ross E. Traub
Reviewed by Adele L. Massena
Professional
1983 September

Curriculum Canada II
Jean-Jacques Bernier and George S. Tomkins (Edited by)
Reviewed by Peter Sahar
Professional
1983 May

Curriculum Canada III
Andrew Hughes and Kenneth Leithwood (Edited by)
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Professional
1982 November

Curriculum Planning for the Classroom
F. Michael Connelly, Albert S. Dukacz and Frank Quinlan
Reviewed by Clare Darby
Professional
1982 November

Custom Combining on the Great Plains
Thomas Isern
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Post-Secondary
1982 November

The Cutting Season
Margaret Clarke
Reviewed by Margaret S. MacLean
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

Cutting Through
Keith Maillard
Reviewed by David J. Young
Adult
1983 May

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