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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 13
February 20, 2009

Book Reviews
   
Can The Imaginary Garden.
 

Andrew Larsen. Illustrated by Irene Luxbacher.
Review by Helen Norrie.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.

   
Can 1 2 3 I Can Collage! (Starting Art).
 

Irene Luxbacher.
Review by Elizabeth Walker.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.

   
Can Hurry Up, Nicholas!
 

Gilles Tibo. Illustrated by Bruno St-Aubin.
Review by Christina Neigel.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.

   
Can There's a Cow Under My Bed!
 

Valerie Sherrard. Illustrated by David Jardine.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.

   
Can My Little Round House.
 

Bolormaa Baasansuren. Adapted by Helen Mixter.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Safety. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Taking Medicine. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Eating Well. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon. Review by Barbara McMillan. Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Keeping Clean. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Exercise. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon. Review by Barbara McMillan. Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Teeth. (Looking After Me).
 

Liz Gogerly. Illustrated by Mike Gordon.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Scaredy Squirrel at Night.
 

Mélanie Watt.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.

   
Can Captain Jake. (Orca Echoes).
 

Shannon Stewart. Illustrated by Ben Hodson.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.

   
Can Canada's Natural Wonders. (Canada Up Close).
 

Joanne Richter.
Review by Rosemary Hollett.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.

   
Can The First Beaver.
 

Caroll Simpson.
Review by Chris Laurie.
Grades 1-6 / Ages 6-11.

   
Can Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch.
 

Susan Glickman. Illustrated by Mélanie Allard.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.

   
Can Canada's Rocks and Minerals. (Canada Close Up).
 

Joanne Richter.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.

   
Can Drawing Maps. (All Over the Map).
 

Kate Torpie.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.

   
Can Map Parts. (All Over the Map).
 

Kate Torpie.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.

   
Can Map Types. (All Over the Map).
 

Anne Becker.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.

   
Can Reading Maps. (All Over the Map).
 

Rolf Sandvold.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.

   
Can CTON's Super A-Maze-Ing Year of Crazy Comics: Puzzles, Mazes, Blobs, & More!
 

Clayton Hanmer.
Review by Devon Greyson.
Grades 2-6 / Ages 7-11.

   
Can The Mealworm Diaries.
 

Anna Kerz.
Review by Karen Rankin.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.

   
Can Maddy's Amazing African Birthday,
 

Megan K. Williams. Photos by Alessandro Vallecchi & Maddalena Vallecchi Williams.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.

   
Can Going Places. (Orca Young Readers).
 

Fran Hurcomb.
Review by Lisa O'Hara.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.

   
Can You Are Weird: Your Body's Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions.
 

Diane Swanson. Illustrated by Kathy Boake.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.

   
Can Acadian Star.
 

Hélène Boudreau.
Review by Caitlin Campbell.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.

   
Can No Contact. (Sports Stories).
 

Sandra Diersch.
Review by Lindsay Schluter.
Grades 3-8 / Ages 8-13.

   
Can The Ship of Lost Souls.
 

Rachelle Delaney.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.

   
Can Think For Yourself: A Kid's Guide to Solving Life's Dilemmas and Other Sticky Problems.
 

Cynthia MacGregor. Illustrated by Paula Becker.
Review by Lizanne Eastwood.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.

   
Can The Solstice Cup.
 

Rachel Dunstan Muller.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Trouble at the Top of the World. (Screech Owls, #22).
 

Roy MacGregor.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Paralyzed. (Orca Sports).
 

Jeff Rud.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Run.
 

Linda Aksomitis.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.

   
Can Wanting Mor.
 

Rukhsana Khan.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.

   
Can Five Minutes More.
 

Darlene Ryan.
Review by Ann Ketcheson. Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.

   
Can After: A Novel. (Spoonful fiction).
 

Hazel Hutchins.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.

   
Can Dog Tracks.
 

Ruby Slipperjack.
Review by Darleen Golke.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.

   
Can War Games. (SideStreets).
 

Jacqueline Guest.
Review by Ellen Wu.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.

   
Can The Songweavers. (The Netherland Journeys).
 

Kathleen McDonnell.
Review by Janet M Johnson.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.

   
Can Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff.
 

Don Cherry as told to Al Strachan.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.

   
Can No Gym Required: Unleash Your Inner Rock Star.
 

Jennifer Cohen with Suzanne Boyd.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

   

Professional Review

   
Can Independent Reading Inside the Box: How to Organize, Observe, and Assess Reading Strategies That Promote Deeper Thinking and Improve Comprehension in K-6 Classrooms.
 

Lisa Donohue.
Review by Kristen Ferguson.

 

CD Reviews

   
Can Monkey Sing, Monkey Do
 

Mary Lambert.
Review by Devon Greyson.
Preschool-kindergarten / Ages 3-5.

Can Seashell, Sing a Song to Me: Traditional Songs and Rhymes for Young Seafarers.
 

Theo Heras.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 2 /Ages 4-7.

 

DVD Reviews

   
Can Water Detectives.
 

David Springbett (Director). Tracey Friesen (Producer). Rina Fraticelli (Executive Producer).
Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.

   
Can First Stories Volume II.
 

Review by Linda Wood.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.

   
Can Blood & Water.
 

Rohan Fernando (Writer & Director). Kent Martin (Producer).
Review by Linda Wood.
Grades 10 & up / Ages 15 & up.

   
Can First Stories: Volume III.
 

Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

   
Can Where I Belong.
 

Arinze Eze (Writer & Director). Joe MacDonald (Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grade 12 and up / Ages 17 and up.

 

New Editions

   
Can Goldfish Don't Take Bubble Baths. (Abby and Tess Pet-Sitters, Book 1).

 

Now in Paperback

   
Can Lemon the Duck.

 



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