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Volume VI Number 1 . . . . September 3, 1999
"Before Sal knew what was happening, the sleigh drew up beside her.... The driver was a girl who looked about Sal's age..... "I haven't seen you in these parts before," the girl said. "Who would you be, then?".... [Sal] somehow knew deep inside her that if she was ever going to get home again she must not tell any lies." I would strongly recommend this book for holiday collections in libraries and for use in Canadian history classes in elementary school. It would also be a wonderful book for grandparents to share with their grandchildren. Highly recommended. Irene Gordon of Headingley, MB, is a free-lance writer and former teacher-librarian who spent 14 years working in a junior high school library.
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The Olden Days Coat, a Canadian Christmas classic, has been deservedly popular since its first
publication. Now it has been reissued with new illustrations done by Muriel Wood who was also
the original illustrator. Her style has not changed; her pictures are still highly realistic, detailed,
and done in bright water colours. The major change is that Wood has greatly increased the
number of full-page illustrations in this new edition, and she has surrounded them with narrow
black and white frames. She still, however, has some of the partial page, borderless pictures with
which she illustrated the first edition.