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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 17
April 18, 2008

Book Reviews

   
Can Gymboree Numbers.
  Illustrated by Christine Coirault.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Gymboree Alphabet.
 

Illustrated by Christine Coirault.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.

   
Can Buttercup's Lovely Day.
 

Carolyn Beck. Illustrated by Andrea Beck.
Review by Helen Norrie.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can Eat, Run, and Live Healthy. (Caring For Me).
 

Karen Olson. Illustrated by Marie-Micheline Hamelin.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Mouth. (Caring For Me).
 

Karen Olson. Illustrated by Leonard George Jr.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives. (Caring For Me).
  Karen Olson. Illustrated by Marie-Micheline Hamelin.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Living Safe, Playing Safe. (Caring For Me).
  Karen Olson. Illustrated by Leonard George Jr.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Looking After Me. (Caring For Me).
 

Denise Lecoy. Illustrated by Marie-Micheline Hamelin.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can One Watermelon Seed.
  Celia Barker Lottridge. Illustrated by Karen Patkau.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can Come On, Dad!: 75 Things for Fathers and Sons to Do Together.
  Ed Avis.
Review by Ruth McMahon.
Preschool-grade 7 / Ages 3-12 and parents.
   
Can

Powwow's Coming.

  Linda Boyden.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Sammy's Secret. (Tadpoles).
  Margaret Nash. Illustrated by Anni Axworthy.
Review Myra Junyk.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Five Teddy Bears. (Tadpoles).
  Anne Adeney. Illustrated by Cathy Shimmen.
Review Myra Junyk.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Enecko Nrmbe Ik'on K'eczho = The Old Man with the Otter Medicine.
  John Blondin. As told by George Blondin. Illustrated by Archie Beaverho. Translated by Mary Rose Sundberg.
Review by Gary Babiuk.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.
   
Can Yamonzha Eyits'o Wets'ckec Tsr = Yamozha and His Beaver Wife.
  Vital Thomas. Illustrated by Archie Beaulieu. Translated by Mary Siemens. Dogrib narration by Francis Zoe. English narration by Dianne Lafferty.
Review by Gary Babiuk.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.
   
Can Animal Families. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Animals Grow and Change. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Homes of Living Things. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can I Am a Living Thing. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Is It a Living Thing? (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Living Things in My Back Yard. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Living Things Need Water. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Plants Are Living Things. (Introducing Living Things).
  Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Yikes, Vikings! (Canadian Flyer Adventures; 4).
  Frieda Wishinsky. Illustrated by Dean Griffiths.
Review by Saache Heinrich.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Emily Carr's Attic.
  Diane Carmel Legér. Illustrated by Michael Legér.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Dancing With the Cranes. (Caring For Me).
  Jeannette Armstrong. Illustrated by Ron Hall.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Grades 1-6 / Ages 6-11.
   
Can Farming. (Linking Canadian Communities).
  Tatiana Tomljanovic.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Swindle.
  Gordon Korman.
Review by Tara Williston.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Very Serious Children.
  Caroline Adderson. Illustrated by Joe Weissmann.
Review by Deborah Mervold and Kessa Gerein.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Conquer the Sky: Flying Ace Wop May.
  Sheila Reid.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Super Crocs & Monster Wings: Modern Animals' Ancient Past.
  Claire Eamer.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis.
  Ann Alma.
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can The Schooner's Revenge.
  Robert Sutherland.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Goatnappers.
  Rosa Jordan.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 6-10 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can Turf War. (HIP Edge).
  Alex Kropp.
Review by Deborah Pethrick.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Turf War Teacher's Guide.
  Lori Jamison.
Review by Deborah Pethrick.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Chanda's Wars.
  Allan Stratton.
Review by Darleen Golke.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.
   
Can Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World.
  Craig Kielburger & Marck Kielburger.
Review by Carolyn Crippen.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.

Professional Reading

   
Can The Literacy Principal: Leading, Supporting, and Assessing Reading and Writing Initiatives. (2nd Ed).
  David Booth & Jennifer Rowsell.
Review by Kristen Ferguson.
   

Video & DVD Reviews

   
Can The Memory Merchant. (Momentum 2006).
  Sandy Nicholson (Director). Anita Lee (Producer).
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   
Can Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey.
  Connie Littlefield (Writer & Director). Ann Bernier & Kent Martin (Producers). Christopher Zimmer & Kent Martin (Executive Producers).
Review by Bryannie Kirk.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.

 



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