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Table of Contents

Volume XII Number 7
November 25 , 2005

Book Reviews
   
Can Rainbows in the Dark.
  Jan Coates. Illustrated by Alice Priestly.
Review by Ellie Contursi.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can And You Can Come Too.
  Ruth Ohi.
Review by Catherine Hoyt.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Touch It! Materials, Matter and You. (Primary Physical Science).
  Adrienne Mason. Illustrated by Claudia Dávila.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Move It! Motion, Forces and You. (Primary Physical Science).
  Adrienne Mason. Illustrated by Claudia Dávila.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can One Splendid Tree.
  Marilyn Helmer. Illustrated by Dianne Eastman.
Review by Alison Mews.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can The Elusive Mr. Zee.
  M.J. Martin. Illustrated by M.J. Martin & A. Danby.
Review by Liz Greenaway.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can Picturescape.
  Elisa Gutiérrez.
Review by Ann Stinner.
Kindergarten-grade 6 / Ages 5-11.
   
Can Aunt Olga’s Christmas Postcards.
  Kevin Major. Illustrated by Bruce Roberts.
Review by Lorraine Douglas.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Leaf Hunter.
  Marie-Clair La Flair.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 1-5 / Ages 6-10.
   
Can Samantha Cardigan and the Ghastly Twirling Sickness. (Red Bananas).
  David Sutherland. Illustrated by David Roberts.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Samantha Cardigan and the Genie’s Revenge. (Red Bananas).
  David Sutherland. Illustrated by David Roberts.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Jewish People in Canada. (Special Canadian Communities).
  Frances Purslow.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can The Métis in Canada. (Special Canadian Communities).
  Heather C. Hudak.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Germans in Canada. (Special Canadian Communities).
  Tina Schwartzenberger.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Hutterites in Canada. (Special Canadian Communities).
  Frances Purslow.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Harry Houdini: A Magical Life.
  Elizabeth MacLeod.
Review by Patricia Fay.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Scholastic Canada Book of Lists.
  James Buckley, Robert Stremme and Pat Hancock.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 3-8 / Ages 8-13.
   
Can Rosie’s Dream Cape.
  Zelda Freedman. Illustrated by Silvana Bevilacqua.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Death of My Country: The Plains of Abraham Diary of Geneviève Aubuchon. (Dear Canada).
  Maxine Trottier.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Thieves! (True Stories from the Edge).
  Andreas Schroeder.
Review by Michael Groberman.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Adeline’s Dream. (From Many Peoples).
  Linda Aksomitis.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can The Righteous Smuggler. (The Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers).
  Debbie Spring.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can Lone Wolf.
  Edo Van Belkom.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Plague. (Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles).
  Clem Martini.
Review by Michelle Superle.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Great Stanley Cup Victories: Glorious Moments in Hockey. (Amazing Stories).
  Rich Mole.
Review by Greg Bak.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Mighty Robots: Mechanical Marvels that Fascinate and Frighten.
  David Jones.
Review by Lori Walker.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land. (A Wow Canada! Book).
  Susan Hughes.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can Jack’s Knife. (A Sirius Mystery).
  Beverley Wood & Chris Wood.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams.
  Tanya Lloyd Kyi.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 6-12 / Ages 11-17.
   
Can Seraphina’s Circle.
  Jocelyn Shipley.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Flight or Fight. (Wildlife Rescue Series).
  Diane Haynes.
Review by Jen Waters.
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16.
   
Int Roxy’s Baby.
  Catherine MacPhail.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.
   
Can Yellow Line. (Orca Soundings).
  Sylvia Olsen.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.
   
Can At Risk. (SideStreets).
  Jacqueline Guest.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Dark Times.
  Ann Walsh, ed.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can The Engine of Recall.
  Karl Schroeder.
Review by Dave Watson.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Shania Twain: Hometown Canadian to International Superstar. (Star Biographies).
  Eva Marie Clarke.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Hockey Town: Life Before the Pros.
  Ed Arnold.
Review by Thomas F Chambers.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can The Rebel League: The Short and Unruly Life of the World Hockey Association.
  Ed Willes.
Review by Thomas F Chambers.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

Video Reviews

   
Can Women on Patrol.
  Barry Lank (Director). Joe MacDonald (Producer). Graydon McCrea (Executive Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

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