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Book Reviews by DATE (1986 January)

1885: MÉtis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
Don McLean
Reviewed by J.D. Ingram
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1986 January

ABC-DABRA: Stories and Other Poems 3
Hugh Oliver and others
Reviewed by E.C. Blakey
Grades 2-3
1986 January

ABC-DABRA: Teacher's Guide/Worksheets 3
Hugh Oliver, Ann Nicholson and Joyce Scane
Reviewed by E.C. Blakey
Grades 2-3
1986 January

An Atlantic Album: Photographs of the Atlantic Provinces, Before 1920
Scott Robson and Shelagh Mackenzie
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Atmosfear
Sean O'Huigin
Reviewed by Patricia Fry
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10
1986 January

Aunt Armadillo
Robin Lewis
Reviewed by Christine Buchanan
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7
1986 January

Back the Attack!: Canadian Women During the Second World War-At Home and Abroad
Jean Bruce
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Bicycle Camping in Canada
Bruce W. Leaden
Reviewed byC.J. Sulkowski
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

A Breed Apart
Tony German
Reviewed by Susan Ratcliffe
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14
1986 January

Bridges: Explorations in Science, Technology & Social Sciences
Reviewed by Yoskyl Webb
Professional
1986 January

The Bright and the Gifted
F.M. Speed and D. Appleyard
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Professional
1986 January

Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories
Nazneen Sadiq
Reviewed by Joanne Peters
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13
1986 January

Canadian Churches and Social Justice
John R. Williams (Edited by)
Reviewed by John Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

The Canadian Writer's Guide
Reviewed by Phyllis James
Post-Secondary
1986 January

Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Douglas Cole
Reviewed by Lois Hird
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

The Changing Economic Status of Women
Jac-André Boulet and Laval Lavallée
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Company's Coming: Appetizers
Jean Paré
Reviewed by Mollie Hooper
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Contemporary Canadian Theatre: New World Visions
Anton Wagner (Edited by)
Reviewed by Thea Todd
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Continuous Journey: A Social History of South Asians in Canada
Norman Buchignani; Doreen M. Indra with Ram Srivastiva
Reviewed by K. Phyllis James
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Courtship in Canada: The New Frontier
Lili R. Bartoetti and Mario D. Bartoletti
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Post-Secondary
1986 January

The Curse of the Montrolfes
Rohan O'Grady
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 5 and up
1986 January

Darkness
Baharati Mukherjee
Reviewed by Barbara Egerer Walker
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Dinosaur Country: Unearthing the badlands' Prehistoric Past
Renie Gross
Reviewed by Janice Foster
Grades 6 and up
1986 January

Duet for Three
Joan Barfoot
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Adult
1986 January

Elders of the Island
Mary O'Brian, Lionel Stevenson, and Terry Dunton Stevenson
Reviewed by Pauline Henaut
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Export Canada: Opportunities and Challenges in the World Economy
Gary Rabbior
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Feeling the Worlds: New Poems
Dorothy Livesay
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Adult
1986 January

In Flanders Fields: The Story of John McCrae
John Prescott
Reviewed by Bohdan Kinezyk
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1986 January

From Bourassa to Bourassa
L. Ian MacDonald
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Glass Houses
Tom Marshall
Reviewed by Chris Kempling
Adult
1986 January

The Glass Mountain
S.L. Sparling
Reviewed by Jean Farquharson
Adult
1986 January

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1986 January

Harvest of Stones: The German Settlement in Renfrew County
Brenda Lee-Whiting
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Heart of the Rockies
Carole Harmon (Edited by)
Reviewed by Joanne Robertson
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Hidden Profits in Your Mortgage: The Smart Money Guide to Canadian Home Ownership
Alan Silverstein
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Hockey: The Illustrated History
Charles Wilkins
Reviewed by Michael Freeman
Grades 3 and up
1986 January

Hold the Rain in Your Hands: Poems New and Selected
Glen Sorestad
Reviewed by Warner Winter
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Horizons: Contemporary Canadian Landscapes
Marci Lipman and Louise Lipman (Selected by)
Reviewed by J.E. Simpson
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Ice Swords: An Undersea Adventure
James Houston
Reviewed by Nadiya Blaine
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1986 January

Index to Donald Jones' "Historical Toronto," Toronto Star, 1973-1984
Lynda Moon, Barbara Myrvold and Lorraine Hughes Vicente
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

The Infested Blanket: Canada's Constitution-Genocide of Indian Nations
Eric Robinson and Henry Bird Quinney
Reviewed by Cornelia Fuykschot
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

In Search of Your British & Irish Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Ancestors
Angus Baxter
Reviewed by Marian Press
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

In Search of Your European Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe
Angus Baxter
Reviewed by Marian Press
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Insect Zoo
Lee Taylor
Reviewed by Joan Weller
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
1986 January

Irving Layton: A Portrait
Elspeth Cameron
Reviewed by Bohdan Kinczyk
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Keegstra the Trial, the Issues, the Consequences
Steve Mertl and John Ward
Reviewed by R. Wieler
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1986 January

The King's Yard: An Illustrated History of the Halifax Dockyard
Marilyn Gurney Smith
Reviewed by Neil Payne
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Learning Strategies and Examination Preparation
Joe J. Danyluk
Reviewed by JoAnna B. Patton
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Let Us Rise!: A History of the Manitoba Labour Movement
Doug Smith
Reviewed by Ron Rennie
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Lies My Father Told Me: A Play With Music
Ted Allan
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Life Career Planning: Reaching for Your Future
David Studd
Reviewed by Alma Webster
Grades 9-12
1986 January

The Life of Hope
Paul Quarrington
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Looking at Plants
David Suzuki with Barbara Hehner
Reviewed by Eve Williams
Grades 4-6
1986 January

Lost and Found
Jean Little
Reviewed by Janice Foster
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10
1986 January

Louis Dudek: A Biographical Introduction to His Poetry
Susan Stromberg-Stein
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Mainstreaming: Some Issues for School Boards
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Professional
1986 January

Mario
Claude Jasmin
Reviewed by Frank Loreto
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Master and Maid: The Charles Massey Murder
Frank Jones
Reviewed by Brenda Watson
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Matinee Idol
Ron Base
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Adult
1986 January

Matters of the Heart
Charlotte Vale Allen
Reviewed by Leslie McGrath
Adult
1986 January

Midnight Matinees
Jay Scott
Reviewed by Caroline E. Young
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Money and Exchange in Canadato 1900
A.B. McCullough
Reviewed by John Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Money Rustlers: Self-Made Millionaires of the New West
Paul Grescoe and David Cruise
Reviewed by John H. Harkness
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

The Mulberry Tree
Anna Friesen and Victor Carl Frieson
Reviewed by Brenda Watson
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

Murdo's Story
Murdo Scribe
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Kindergarten-grade 5 / Ages 5-10
1986 January

"My Dear Legs...": Letters to a Young Social Democrat
Alex Macdonald
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

My Orange Gorange
Judith Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Maryleah Otto
Pre-School-Grade 2
1986 January

The Neglected Majority: Essays in Canadian Women's History, Volume 2
Alison Prentice and Susan Mann Trofimenkoff (Edited by)
Reviewed by Catherine Creede
Post-Secondary
1986 January

Night Studies
Constance Beresford-Howe
Reviewed by Barbara Egerer Walker
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Not Our Baby
Sharon Clark
Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Nutrition: Making Choices About What We Eat
Tamara Shuttleworth
Reviewed by Alma Webster
Grades 9-12
1986 January

Our Brother Has Down's Syndrome: An Introduction for Children
Shelley Cairo; Jasmine Cairo and Tara Cairo
Reviewed by Maryleah Otto
Pre-School-Grade 2
1986 January

Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris
Mavis Gallant
Reviewed by Vivienne Denton
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Parenting: Shaping the Future
Beverley Cowan
Reviewed by Alma Webster
Grades 9-12
1986 January

Party Politics in Canada
Hugh G. Thorburn
Reviewed by Vic Stecyk
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

PQ: Réne Lévesque & the Parti Québecois in Power
Graham Fraser
Reviewed by George Hoffman
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Prairie Lives: The Changing Face of Farming
Lois L. Ross
Reviewed by Gerald R. Brown
Adult
1986 January

The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-1918
Paul-Andre Linteau
Reviewed by Fred May
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Rocky Mountain House: National Historic Park
Fred Stenson
Reviewed by Robin Lewis
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Rodeo Cowboys: The Last Heroes
Ted Barris
Reviewed by Ingrid vonHausen
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Software Evaluation: Criteria for Educational Computer Software Evaluation
Reviewed by Don Precosky
Professional
1986 January

Spirit of the White Bison
Beatrice Culleton
Reviewed by Janet E. Goldack
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up
1986 January

The Stanley Park Explorer
Richard Steele
Reviewed by Adele Case
Grades 8 and up
1986 January

Step-Families: Making Them Work
Erna Paris
Reviewed by Glen DiPasquale
Adult
1986 January

The Stockyard Story, 1803-1985
D.R. McDonald
Reviewed by A. Tribinevicius
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

The Store
Mike Shultz
Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant
Grades 7 and up
1986 January

The Summer the Whales Sang
Gloria Montero
Reviewed by Carol Steedman
Grades 5-8
1986 January

Sybil Jacobson: Painting in the West
Mary G. Alexander
Reviewed by Carrie Gardner
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

The Tatooed Woman
Marian Engel
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

They Sought a New World: The Story of European Immigration to North America
William Kurelek
Reviewed by Alma Webster
Grades 6-12
1986 January

Thomas' Snowsuit
Robert Munsch
Reviewed by Patricia Sentance
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8
1986 January

Those Green Things
Kathy Stinson
Reviewed by Grace E. Funk
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7
1986 January

Toeing the Line: Women and Party Politics in English Canada
Sylvia B. Bashevkin
Reviewed by Ruth Rausa
Post-Secondary
1986 January

Unlikely Tory: The Life and Politics of Allan Grossman
Peter Oliver
Reviewed by Ruth Rausa
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Various Miracles
Carol Shields
Reviewed by Anne Locatelli
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Veiled Countries/Lives
Marie-Claire Blais
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

The Veterans' Years: Coming Home From The War
Barry Broadfoot
Reviewed by Alfred F. Greenwood
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

The Walls of India
George Woodcock
Reviewed by Gary Robertson
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

Wild Man of the Woods
Joan Clark
Reviewed by Joan Weller
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14
1986 January

Windows and Mirrors: Short Stories, Volume 1
Marilyn Chapman (Edited by)
Reviewed by Clare A. Darby
Grades 9-10
1986 January

Wise-Ears
Nancy Bauer
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Adult
1986 January

The Wonder of Canadian Birds
Candace Savage
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

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