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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 22
June 27, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can Bedtime for Tad.
  Adam Nicely.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-3.
   
Can The Rocking Chair. (Alligator Tales).
  Dennis Lee. Illustrated by Nora Hilb.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can This Little Puppy. (Alligator Tales).
  Dennis Lee. Illustrated by Nora Hilb.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Polar Animals. (Who Lives Here?).
  Deborah Hodge. Illustrated by Pat Stephens.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Rain Forest Animals. (Who Lives Here?).
  Deborah Hodge. Illustrated by Pat Stephens.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Someday When My Cat Can Talk.
  Caroline Lazo. Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 5 / Ages 4-10.
   
Can The Woman Who Married a Bear.
  Elizabeth James, reteller. Illustrated by Atanas.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can It's Moving Day.
  Pamela Hickman. Illustrated by Geraldo Valério.
Review by Jessica Peterson.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Miss Flint Meets the Great Kweskin: Another Collection of Miss Flint Stories.
  Don Sawyer. Illustrated by Bob Beeson.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Claire and the Bakery Thief.
  Janice Poon.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Poison Island. (Zac Power).
  H. I. Larry. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Janet Grafton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Deep Waters. (Zac Power).
  H. I. Larry. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Janet Grafton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Frozen Fear. (Zac Power).
  H. I. Larry. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Janet Grafton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Mind Games. (Zac Power).
  H. I. Larry. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Janet Grafton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Julia Gillian (And the Art of Knowing).
  Alison McGhee. Illustrated by Drazen Kozjan.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 3-4 / Ages 8-9.
   
Can Ollie's Field Journal: A 9/10ths Happy Story from Africa.
  Patti McIntosh. Illustrated by Tara Langlois. Photographs by Dustin Delfs.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Benny Bensky and the Parrot-Napper. [Previous title: Adventures with Miss Flint.]
  Mary Borsky. Illustrated by Linda Hendry.
Review by Dana Eagles-Daley.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can SGang Gwaay. (Wonders of Canada).
  Annalise Bekkering.
Review by Reece Steinberg.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit.
  Cary Fagan.
Review by Andrea Galbraith.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Swinging for the Fences: Hank Aaron and Me.
  Mike Leonetti. Illustrated by David Kim.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Gymnastic Events. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Sprints, Hurdles, and Other Track Events. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Rowing, Sailing, and Other Sports on Water. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Basketball, Soccer, and Other Ball Games. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Cycling, Shooting, and Show Jumping. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Decathlon, High Jump, and Other Field Events. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Swimming, Diving, and Other Water Sports. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Martial Arts, Boxing, and Other Combat Sports. (The Olympic Sports).
  Jason Page.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Dino-Why? The Dinosaur Question & Answer Book.
  Sylvia Funston.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 3-8 / Ages 8-13.
   
Can Dear Sylvia.
  Alan Cumyn.
Review by Lindsay Schluter.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Mounties. (Discovering Canada).
  Robert Livesey. Illustrated by A.G. Smith.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Russia: The Land. 2nd. Rev. Ed. (The Lands, Peoples, and Cultures Series).
  Greg Nickles.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Russia: The People. 2nd. Rev. Ed. (The Lands, Peoples, and Cultures Series).
  Greg Nickles.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Russia: The Culture. 2nd. Rev. Ed. (The Lands, Peoples, and Cultures Series).
  Greg Nickles.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Proof That Ghosts Exist. (The Ghosthunters 1).
  Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Frightful First World War. (Horrible Histories).
  Terry Deary. Illustrated by Martin Brown.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can The One and Only Zoë Lama.
  Tish Cohen.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Fish & Sphinx.
  Rae Bridgman.
Review by Darleen Golke.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns.
  Elizabeth MacLeod.
Review by Marilynne V. Black.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Centsibility: The Planet Girl Guide to Money. (Planet Girl).
  Stacey Roderick & Ellen Warwick. Illustrated by Monika Melnychuk.
Review by Lizanne Eastwood.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Tales from Outer Suburbia.
  Shaun Tan.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can Freefall.
  Wendy A. Lewis.
Review by Caitlin J. Berry.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Big Guy. (Orca Soundings).
  Robin Stevenson.
Review by Bryannie Kirk.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
  Kathy Stinson.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Run Like Jäger.
  Karen Bass.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.
   
Can They Called Me Red.
  Christina Kilbourne.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.
   
Can Darkness of the God. (Children of the Panther: Part Two).
  Amber Hayward.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can Mostly Happy.
  Pam Bustin.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   

DVDs & Video Reviews

   
Can Driven By Dreams.
  Serge Giguère (Director). Nicole Hubert, Sylvie Van Brabant & Colette Loumède (Producers).
Review by Alison Mews.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can The Point.
  Joshua Dorsey (Director). Melissa Malkin & Joshua Dorsey (Silo Productions Producers). Germaine Ying Gee Wong(NFB Producer).
Review by Thom Knutson.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can Country.
  Carole Laganière (Director & Writer). Alain Corneau (Les Productions de la Chasse Galerie Producer). Jacques Turgeon (NFB Producer).
Review by Libby McKeever.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

 



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