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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 2
September 14, 2007

Book Reviews

   
Can Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
  Ruowen Wang. Illustrated by Wei Xu.
Review by Jeannette Timmerman.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Who Likes the Rain? (Exploring the Elements).
  Etta Kaner. Illustrated by Marie Lafrance.
Review by Reece Steinberg.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-6.
   
Can Cheetah Cubs and Beetle Grubs: The Wacky Ways We Name Young Animals.
  Diane Swanson. Illustrated by Mariko Ando Spencer.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can The Sakura Tree.
  Carolyn McTighe. Illustrated by Karen Brownlee.
Review by Helen Norrie.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Little Wen: "What is the Chinese Saying for This One?"
  Ruowen Wang. Illustrated by Wei Xu.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.
   
Can Late for School. (Haley and Bix).
  Scott Higgs.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 1-2 / Ages 6-7.
   
Can Martin Bridge Out of Orbit!
  Jessica Scott Kerrin. Illustrated by Joseph Kelly.
Review by Carole Marion.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Crazy for Gold. (Canadian Flyer Adventures; 3).
  Frieda Wishinsky. Illustrated by Dean Griffiths.
Review by Saache Heinrich.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can The Lord is My Shepherd.
  Bible. O.T. Psalms XXIII. English. Authorized. 2006. Illustrated by Regolo Ricci.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Jeremy and the Golden Fleece. (Orca Echoes).
  Becky Citra. Illustrated by Jessica Milne.
Review by Lisa Hanson O'Hara.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Summer Dragons.
  Holly Haggarty.
Review by Jane Bridle .
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can I Didn't Do It! (HIP-JR).
  Paul Kropp. Illustrated by Kalle Malloy.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can I Didn't Do It! Teachers's Guide.
  Lori Jamison.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times.
  Barbara Wyn Klunder.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Mystery at Shildii Rock.
  Robert Feagan.
Review by Diana Lynn Wilkes.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Northern Lights A to Z.
  Mindy Dwyer.
Review by Sandi Harrison.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Klutzhood.
  Chris McMahen.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer.
  Sue Ann Alderson. Illustrated by Millie Ballance.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Jingle Bats. (HIP-JR).
  Sharon Jennings. Illustrated by Kalle Malloy.
Review by Janice Foster.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Jingle Bats: Teacher's Guide.
  Lori Jamison.
Review by Janice Foster.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Rex Zero, King of Nothing.
  Tim Wynne-Jones.
Review by Jen Waters.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Eye of the Crow. (The Boy Sherlock Holmes).
  Shane Peacock.
Review by David Ward.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914. (Dear Canada).
  Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Stand By Me. (Grantham High Series).
  Michele. Shapiera.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Something Special. (Grantham High Series).
  Michele. Shapiera.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Foul Shot. (HIP-SR).
  Paul Kropp. Illustrated by Catherine Doherty.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Foul Shot: Teachers's Guide.
  Lori Jamison.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People.
  Gena K. Gorrell. Illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Kidnapped: The Graphic Novel.
  Robert Louis Stevenson. Adaptation by Alan Grant. Illustrated by Cam Kennedy.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can Orphan Ahwak.
  Raquel Rivera.
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Sandbag Shuffle.
  Kevin Marc Fournier.
Review by Lisa Doucet.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Titanic: The Canadian Connection. (Amazing Stories).
  Lanny Boutin.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Finding Cassidy.
  Laura Langston.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16.
   
Can Vendetta. (The Runestone Saga, Book II).
  Chris Humphreys.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Hockey: Games, Trivia, Quizzes and More! (All-Star Sports Puzzles).
  Jesse Ross.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Basketball: Games, Trivia, Quizzes and More! (All-Star Sports Puzzles).
  Jesse Ross.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can For Now.
  Gayle Friesen.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.
   
Can Grrrrowlicious Food for Hungry Dogs.
  Jamie Young. Photography by Derek Swallwel.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Sixty-five Roses: A Sister's Memoir.
  Heather Summerhayes Cariou.
Review by J. Lynn Fraser.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

Professional Reading

   
Can Evaluating Students: How Teachers Justify and Defend Their Marks to Parents, Students, and Principals.
  Alex Shirran.
Review by Pat Sadowy.
   

Video & DVD Reviews

   
Can The Interventionists: Chronicles of a Mental Health Crisis Team.
  Katerina Cizek (Writer & Director). Gerry Flahive (Producer). Silva Basmajian (Executive Producer).
Review by Monika Grossenbacher.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Race is a Four Letter Word.
  Sobaz Benjamin (Writer & Director). Annette Clarke (Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can Killer's Paradise.
  Giselle Portenier (Producer & Director). Olenka Frenkiel (Writer & Reporter). Silva Basmajian (NFB Producer & Executive Producer).
Review by Monika Grossenbacher.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   

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