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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 9
December 19, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can Crocodiles Play!
 

Robert Heidbreder. Illustrated by Rae Maté.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can Learn Along With Lily.
 

Donna McNaughton. Illustrated by Mike Motz.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.

   
Can The Promise.
 

Kathleen Helen Strom. Illustrated by Donna Assié.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-6.

   
Can Merry Christmas, Little Mouse.
 

Dugald Steer. Illustrated by Caroline Anstey.
Review by Min So.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.

   
Can Brady Brady and the Cleanup Hitters.
 

Mary Shaw. Illustrated by Chuck Temple.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.

   
Can How We Were.
 

Teddy Jam. Illustrated by Ange Zhang.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can The West is Calling: Imagining British Columbia.
 

Sarah N. Harvey & Leslie Buffam. Illustrated by Dianna Bonder.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.

   
Can Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.
 

Tove Jansson.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10.

   
Can Toby and the Mysterious Creature. (First Novels).
 

Jean Lemieux. Illustrated by Sophie Casson. Translated by Sarah Cummins.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.

   
Can Final Faceoff. (Looney Bay All Stars; 7).
 

Helaine Becker. Illustrated by Sampar.
Review by Stacie Edgar.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.

   
Can Angels Inc.
 

Bruce McBay. Illustrated by Kim LaFave.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.

   
Can Lord of the Sky.
 

Linda Zeman-Spaleny. Illustrated by Ludmila Zeman.
Review by Sylvia Pantaleo.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.

   
Can Animals at the Edge: Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures.
 

Jonathan Baillie & Marilyn Baillie.
Review by Janice Foster.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.

   
Can Meet Manitoba's Children's Authors.
 

M. D. Meyer.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.

   
Can Fiendish Deeds. (The Joy of Spooking; Bk #1).
 

P. J. Bracegirdle.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 8-12.

   
Can What Is Citizenship? (Canadian Citizenship in Action).
 

Heather Kissock, ed.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Citizenship in a Democracy. (Canadian Citizenship in Action).
 

Heather Kissock, ed.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Citizens and Government in Canada. (Canadian Citizenship in Action).
 

Heather C. Hudak, ed.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Individual Power. (Canadian Citizenship in Action).
 

Heather C. Hudak, ed.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.

   
Can Inuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the World.
 

Mary Wallace.
Review by Christina Neigel.
Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up.

   
Can Archipelago.
 

David Ward.
Review by Dana L. Coates.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.

   
Can Where The River Takes Me: The Hudson’s Bay Diary of Jenna Sinclair, Fort Victoria, Vancouver’s Island, 1859. (Dear Canada).
 

Review by Ruth Sands.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.

   
Can Sir John S.D. Thompson: The Pushover Who Died Too Soon. (Canadian Prime Ministers: Warts & All).
 

Elle Andra-Warner. Illustrated by Suzanne Morgensen.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.

   
Can Sir Charles Tupper: The Bully Who Battled for Canada. (Canadian Prime Ministers: Warts & All).
 

Johanna Bertin. Illustrated by Gabriel Morrissette & Bernie Mireault.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.

   
Can The Pole.
 

Eric Walters.
Review by Vikki VanSickle.
Grades 5-9 / Ages10-14.

   
Can Alexandria of Africa.
 

Eric Walters.
Review by Anna Swanson.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.

   
Can Get Lost!
 

M.D. Meyer.
Review by Elaine Fuhr.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.

   
Can Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation.
 

Kathleen O’Grady & Paula Wansbrough.
Review by Kay Weisman.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.

   
Can Watching Jimmy.
 

Nancy Hartry.
Review by Betsy Fraser.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.

   
Can Puppet.
 

Eva Wiseman.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.

   
Can Faster Than Wind
 

Steve Pitt.
Review by Philip Bravo.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.

   
Can Emily’s Rebellion. (Not Just Proms & Parties).
 

Patricia G. Penny.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.

   
Can Jeremy’s Song. (Lawrence High Yearbook Series; 3).
 

David A. Poulsen.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12–15.

   
Can Cowboy Cool. (Lawrence High Yearbook Series; 4).
 

David A. Poulsen.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12–15.

   
Can Sophie's Treason.
 

Beverley Boissery.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.

   
Can Sophie's Exile.
 

Beverley Boissery.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.

   
Can She Loves You.
 

Rhonda Batchelor.
Review by Danya David.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.

   
Can Reena: A Father’s Story.
 

Manjit Virk.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.

   
Can Watching July.
 

Christine Hart.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 8-11 /Ages 13-16.

   
Can Numbers.
 

David A. Poulsen.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.

   
Can Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction.
 

Claude Lalumière, ed.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.

   
Can Hidden Talent. (Bayview High).
 

H. J. Lewis.
Review by Elaine Fuhr.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.

   
Can What Is Canada? The Ultimate Canadian Quiz Book.
 

Dan de Figueiredo.
Review by Greg Bak.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.

   
Can It Happened on the Underground Railroad.
 

Tricia Martineau Wagner.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.

   
Can To Be My Father’s Daughter.
 

Carmelita McGrath. Research/writing by Sharon Halfyard. Marion Cheeks, ed.
Review by Beverly Fitzpatrick.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

   
Can Frog or Prince? The Smart Girl’s Guide to Boyfriends.
 

Kaycee Jane.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

   

Professional Review

   
Can Reality Rules: A Guide to Nonfiction Reading Interests. (Genreflecting Advisory Series).
 

Elizabeth Fraser.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.

 

DVD & Reviews

   
Can 24 Days in Brooks.
 

Dana Inkster (Writer & Director). Bonnie Thompson (Producer). Derek
Mazur & Gradon McCrea (Executive Producers).
Review by Cathy Vincent-Linderoos.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.

   
Can Sexy Inc.: Our Children Under Influence.
 

Sophie Bissonnette (Writer & Director). Patricia Bergeron (Producer).
Yves Bisaillon (Executive Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.

   
Can Totem: Return and Renewal.
 

Gil Cardinal (Writer & Director). William Belcourt (Associate Producer).
Bonnie Thompson (Producer). Derek Mazur (Executive Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.

 



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