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Table of Contents

Volume XX Number 1
September 6, 2013

Book Reviews
   
Can Baby Talk. (Baby Steps).
  Shanda LaRamee-Jones & Carol McDougall.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Preschool / Birth-age 3.
   
Can Caribou Song = AteekOonagamoon.
  Tomson Highway. Illustrated by John Rombough.
Review by Rachel Yaroshuk.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can A Newfoundland Year.
  Dawn Baker.
Review by Jillian Sexton.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Raven Brings the Light.
  Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd. Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers.
Review by Roxy Garstad.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can Making Contact! Marconi Goes Wireless. (Great Ideas Series).
  Monica Kulling. Illustrated by Richard Rudnicki.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can The Great Bike Rescue. (Orca Young Readers).
  Hazel Hutchins.
Review by Amber Allen.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can T is for Territories: A Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Alphabet.
  Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak. Illustrated by Iris Churcher.
Review by Nicole Dalmer.
Grades 2-8 / Ages 7-13.
   
Can Brilliant! Shining a Light on Sustainable Energy. (Orca Footprints).
  Michelle Mulder.
Review by Sherry Faller.
Grades 3-8 / Ages 8-13.
   
Can The Hypnotists. (The Hypnotists, Bk.1).
  Gordon Korman.
Review by Kerri Hutchinson.
Grade 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale.
  Charles de Lint. Illustrated by Charles Vess.
Review by Tara Stieglitz.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Courageous Women Rebels. (The Women’s Hall of Fame Series).
  Joy Crysdale.
Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Panic in Pittsburgh. (Screech Owls).
  Roy MacGregor.
Review by Elaine Fuhr.
Grades 5-7 / Age 10-12.
   
Can 10 Plants That Shook the World.
  Gillian Richardson. Art by Kim Rosen.
Review by Michelle Brown.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can Cut the Lights. (Orca Limelights).
  Karen Krossing.
Review by Alicia Cheng.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Dial “M” for Morna. (The Dead Kid Detective Agency).
  Evan Munday.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can The Duct Tape Book: 25 Projects to Make with Duct Tape.
  Jolie Dobson.
Review by Betsy Fraser.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can The Songcatcher and Me.
  Ruth Latta.
Review by Darleen Golke.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Homophobia: Deal with It and Turn Prejudice into Pride. (Deal With It).
  Steven Solomon. Illustrated by Nick Johnson.
Review by Rob Bittner.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Crash. (Orca Soundings).
  Lesley Choyce.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.
   
Can Hijacked: How Your Brain is Fooled by Food.
  David A. Kessler. Adapted by Richie Chevat from The End of Overeating.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Night Has Claws. (The Magdeburg Trilogy, Book Two).
  Kat Kruger.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can War Brothers: The Graphic Novel.
  Sharon E. McKay and Daniel Lafrance. Illustrated by Daniel Lafrance.
Review by Chris Laurie.
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16.
   
Can Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids.
  Deborah Ellis.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   

Professional Reading

   
Can Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning.
  Lawrence Hill.
Review by Lian Beveridge.
   

DVD Review

   
Can Mighty Jerome = Le Grand Jerome.
  Charles Officer (Writer & Director). Selwyn Jacob (Producer). Tracey Friesen (Executive Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

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