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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 22
June 26, 2009

Book Reviews
   
Can I Spy a Bunny.
  Judy Dudar. Illustrated by Richard Rudnicki.
Review by Helen Norrie.
Preschool-Kindergarten / Ages 2-5.
   
Can Pounce de Leon.
  Tim Wynne-Jones. Illustrated by Alfredo Tapia.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Timmerman Was Here.
  Colleen Sydor. Illustrated by Nicolas Debon.
Review by Reesa Cohen.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can G is for Golden Boy: A Manitoba Alphabet.
  Larry Verstraete. Illustrated by Brian Lund.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Grades 1 and up / Ages 6 and up.
   
Can Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas.
  Cary Fagan. Illustrated by Dušsan Petrišcic.
Review by Andrea Galbraith.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Timberwolf Tracks. (Orca Echoes: Howling Timberwolves).
  Sigmund Brouwer. Illustrated by Graham Ross.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Coyotes.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Foxes.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Spirit Bears.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Wild Cats.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Wolverines.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Welcome to the World of Wolves.
  Diane Swanson.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can The History of Rock. (Crabtree Contact).
  Steven Rosen.
Review by Erin Walker.
Grades 2-8 / Ages 7-13.
   
Can The History of Pop. (Crabtree Contact).
  Ben Hubbard.
Review by Erin Walker.
Grades 2-8 / Ages 7-13.
   
Can The History of Hip Hop. (Crabtree Contact).
  Melanie J. Cornish.
Review by Erin Walker.
Grades 2-8 / Ages 7-13.
   
Can Guardian Angel House. (A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers).
  Kathy Clark.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Pip: The Story of Olive.
  Kim Kane.
Review by Lindsay Schluter.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Delta is My Home = Ehdiitat shanakat t'agoonch'uu Uvanga Nunatarmuitmi aimayuaqtunga. (The Land is Our Storybook).
  Tom McLeod & Mindy Willett. Photographs by Tessa Macintosh.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can We Feel Good Out Here = Zhik gwaa'an, nakhwatthaiitat qwiinzii. (The Land is Our Storybook).
  Julie-Ann André & Mindy Willett. Photographs by Tessa Macintosh.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Robert Munsch.
  Frank B. Edwards.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can Exploration in the Renaissance. (Renaissance World).
  Lynne Elliott.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Renaissance in Europe (Renaissance World).
  Lynne Elliott.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Painting in the Renaissance. (Renaissance World).
  Una D'Elia.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Science in the Renaissance. (Renaissance World).
  Lisa Mullins.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Chocolate River Rescue.
  Jennifer McGrath Kent.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can White Cave Escape.
  Jennifer McGrath Kent.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can The Secrets of Dynamite Point. (An Angela and Emmie Adventure).
  Tom Schwarzkopf.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Ed. Begley, Jr.: Living Green. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Robert Grayson.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Rachel Carson: Fighting Pesticides and Other Chemical Pollutants. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Patricia Lantier.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Al Gore: A Wake-Up Call to Global Warming. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Dale Anderson.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can John Muir: Protecting and Preserving the Environment. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Henry Elliot.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can David Suzuki: Doing Battle with Climate Change. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Suzy Gazlay.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Victor Wouk: The Father of the Hybrid Car. (Voices for Green Choices).
  Sean Callery.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Rodeo Horse. (Mustang Mountain, #5).
  Sharon Siamon.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Tell Me Why: How Young People Can Change the World.
  Eric Walters, editor.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can Wolf Summer.
  Rob Keough.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can I Was a Teenage Alien.
  Jane Greenhill.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can DJing. (Crabtree Contact).
  John Steventon (as DJ Recess).
Review by Christina Pike.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Laughing Wolf.
  Nicholas Maes.
Review by Caitlin Campbell.
Grades 6-10 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can Doom Lake Holiday.
  Tom Henighan.
Review by Kay Weisman.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Return to Bone Tree Hill.
  Kristin Butcher.
Review by Rachel Steen.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Hunchback Assignments.
  Arthur Slade.
Review by Jennifer Draper.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Awakening. (The Darkest Powers Series, Book 2).
  Kelley Armstrong.
Review by Jennifer Draper.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.
   
Can Inferno.
  Robin Stevenson.
Review by Naomi Hamer.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Of Wind and Sand.
  Sylvie Bérard. Translated by Sheryl Curtis.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   

Professional Review

   
Can Good Books Matter: How to Choose and Use Children's Literature to Help Students Grow as Readers.
  Shelley Stagg Peterson & Larry Swartz.
Review by Betty Klassen.
   

CD Review

   
Can Agent Story: Tales From the Briefcase.
  Laura Thomas.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   

DVD & Video Reviews

   
Can The Dark Years 1929-1939: Episode 1.
  Steven Silver (Director). Laszlo Barna (Producer Chuck Gammage Animation Inc). Gerry Flahive (NFB Producer). Laszlo Barna & Steven Silver (Executive Producers). Silva Basmajian (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can The Dark Years 1929-1939: Episode 2.
  Steven Silver (Director). Laszlo Barna (Producer Chuck Gammage Animation Inc). Gerry Flahive (NFB Producer). Laszlo Barna & Steven Silver (Executive Producers). Silva Basmajian (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can The Dark Years 1929-1939: Episode 3.
  Steven Silver (Director). Laszlo Barna (Producer Chuck Gammage Animation Inc). Gerry Flahive (NFB Producer). Laszlo Barna & Steven Silver (Executive Producers). Silva Basmajian (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

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