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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 8
December 5, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can Same Same.
  Marthe Jocelyn. Illustrated by Tom Slaughter.
Review by Barb Taylor.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can The Sweetest One of All.
  Jean Little. Illustrated by Marisol Sarrazin.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Leo's New Pet. (Tadpoles).
  Mick Gower. Illustrated by Richard Morgan.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Bad Luck, Lucy! (Tadpoles).
  Sue Graves. Illustrated by Lisa Williams.
Review by Carole Marion.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Crabby Gabby. (Tadpoles).
  Sue Graves. Illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini.
Review by Carole Marion.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Pumpkin People.
  Sandra & Ron Lightburn. Translated by Jill Corner.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can A Wizard in Love.
  Mireille Levert. Illustrated by Marie Lafrance.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Sand Castles.
  Florence Bolté. Illustrated by Mentalo. Translated by Jean Bolté & Liliane Marchand Bolté.
Review by Carrie Subtelny.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.
   
Can Snow Castles.
  Florence Bolté. Illustrated by Mentalo. Translated by Philip Lee.
Review by Carrie Subtelny.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.
   
Can Out of the Deeps.
  Anne Laurel Carter. Illustrated by Nicolas Debon.
Review by Keith McPherson.
Kindergarten-grade 6 / Ages 5-11.
   
Can Robert Munsch. (My Favorite Writer).
  Heather Kissock.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Chinese New Year. (Celebrations in My World).
  Carrie Gleason.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Christmas. (Celebrations in My World).
  Molly Aloian.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Cinco de Mayo. (Celebrations in My World).
  Kate Torpie.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Constitution Day. (Celebrations in My World).
  Molly Aloian.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Day of the Dead. (Celebrations in My World).
  Carrie Gleason.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Diwali. (Celebrations in My World).
  Kate Torpie.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Hanukkah. (Celebrations in My World).
  Mollie Aloian.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Kwanzaa. (Celebrations in My World).
  Mollie Aloian.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Ramadan. (Celebrations in My World).
  Kate Torpie.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Many Windows: Six Kids, Five Faiths, One Community.
  Rukhsana Khan with Elisa Carbone & Uma Krishnaswami. Illustrated by Patty Gallinger.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Meeting Miss 405. (Orca Young Readers).
  Lois Peterson.
Review by Claire Perrin.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Zibby Payne & the Red Carpet Revolt.
  Alison Bell.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Sidney Crosby. (Remarkable Canadians).
  Danielle Leclair.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can The Earth: Our Home Planet. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can The Moon: Earth's Neighbor. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can The Sun: Our Local Star. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Mars: Distant Red Planet (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Mighty Megaplanets: Jupiter and Saturn. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Hot Planets: Mercury and Venus. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Gas Giants: Huge Far Off Worlds. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Ice Dwarfs: Pluto and Beyond. (Exploring Our Solar System).
  David Jefferis.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Gotcha! Mystery Hunters: 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends.
  David Acer. Illustrated by Stephen MacEachern.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Focus On Flies.
  Norma Dixon.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can M is for Mountie: An RCMP Alphabet.
  Polly Horvath. Illustrated by Lorna Bennett.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can Longhorns and Outlaws.
  Linda Aksomitis.
Review by Allison McDonald.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Submarine Outlaw.
  Philip Roy.
Review by Karen Taylor.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Bookweird.
  Paul Glennon.
Review by Tara Williston.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Savage Stone Age. (Horrible Histories).
  Terry Deary. Illustrated by Martin Brown.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Yeny and the Children for Peace. (A Kids' Power Book).
  Michelle Mulder.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can 52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure. Rev. Ed.
  Lawrie Raskin with Debora Pearson. Photography by Lawrie Raskin.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George.
  Hugh Brewster. Illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Review by Jessica Peterson.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls.
  Deb Loughead & Jocelyn Shipley, eds.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Greener Grass.
  Caroline Pignat.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Charged. (Sidestreets).
  Carol Moreira.
Review by Christina Pike.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
   
Can Child of Dandelions.
  Shenaaz Nanji.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Dingo.
  Charles de Lint.
Review by Ellen Wu.
Grades 9-11 / Ages 15-17.
   
   
Can Cities. (A Groundworok Guide).
  John Loring.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

Professional Reading

Can Salish Myths and Legends: One People's Stories. (Native Literatures of the Amerticas Series).
  M. Terry Thompson & Steven M. Egesdal, eds. Review by Gail de Vos.

DVD Review

Can The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histomap.
  Eric Gaucher (Writer & Director).
Adam Symansky & Ravida Din (Producers).
Sally Bochner & Ravida Din (Executive Producers).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   

 



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