 Correction
CM has recently reviewed two video titles by Lynx Images,
Toronto: Stories from the Life of a
City, and Ghosts of the
Bay. Unfortunately, the contact information we provided was
out of date.
Lynx Images may be reached at:
Lynx Images
P.O. Box 5961
Station `A'
Toronto, ON
M5W 1P4
Phone: (416) 535-4553
From the Mailbox:
Response to Really Weird Animals Review
Hello!
We were very pleased to see our company represented on your
site, and
particularly pleased with the review of our Crabapple book, Really
Weird
Animals (CM Vol. II, No. 13, January
12).
We wanted to point out two errors, just for the record:
Within her review, Ms. Zaidman states that, "the location of each
animal's
habitat is not identified, an important omission that could have been
rectified either with a small map or a few words." In fact, each
animal's
habitat is clearly identified at the book's end, in the section called,
"What is in the picture?"
Also, at the page's top, Bobbie Kalman's name is spelled
incorrectly ("Bobby").
Thank you again for the exposure & review, and we look forward to seeing
more of your website in the future!
Greg Nickles, Editor, Crabtree.
Harriet Zaidman replies:
The page at the end called "What is in the picture?" lists, in
two columns, the pages on which photographs appeared, and gives a
variety of information about the animals. It does include countries in
which the animals lived, but not in an organized manner.
For example,
the information for the picture on page 4 (in the first column) is:
"Warthogs live on the grasslands and in some deserts of Africa." The
information
for the pictures on Page 20 and 21 (in the second column) is: "A male
warthog has larger warts and tusks than a female." and "Warthogs are
gray or
black, but they may appear red or yellow because of the muddy clay that
sticks
to their skin."
So while the location of the animal is there, it is not apparent
that this information is specifically available. It appears to be an
assortment of information.
A better way of organizing this would be to
put the information, including the location as well as other
information, with the pictures. As it is, a child has to flip back and forth between
the photographs and the back page, and hunt through the lists on the back
page to get complete information about the animal.
If an adult doesn't see this right away, I think a child might
not either.
This does not mean that the book is not useful! My review states
its positive points.
-- H.Z.
Mr. Nickles is indisputably correct about the spelling error, however,
which was not Ms. Zaidman's; it was a typo which crept in while I was editing.
My apologies -- we'll fix it in the archives.
-- D.T.
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Book Reviews
 Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt.
- Barbara Smucker. Illustrated by Janet Wilson.
- Review by Margaret Ross.
- Kindergarten - grade 3 / Ages 5 - 8.
- Wesakejack and the Flood.
- Bill Ballantyne. Illustrated by Linda Mullin.
- Review by Margaret Ross.
- Preschool - grade 6 / Ages 4 - 11.
- Maddie in Danger.
- Louise Leblanc. Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay.
- Translated by Sarah Halifax Cummins from Sophie est en
Danger.
- Review by A. Edwardsson.
- Grades 3 - 5 / Ages 8 - 10.
- The Root Cellar. 2nd ed.
- Janet Lunn. Illustrated by Scott Cameron.
- Review by John D. Crawford.
- Grades 3 - 9 / Ages 8 - 14.
- The Coastline of Forgetting.
- Leslie Choyce.
- Review by Pat Bolger.
- Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
- William Hutt: Masks and Faces.
- Edited by Keith Garebian.
- Review by Pat Bolger.
- Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
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