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. Volume X Number 16 . . . . April 8, 2004
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Obviously, the book can be enjoyed (and read) at two levels. Primary school children will understand the main text while older students will gain further information from the fact boxes. The illustrations, rendered in oil, are glorious in their richness of colour and texture, and with their crimson highlights and accents on every page, they remind readers of maple leaves in autumn. Recommended. Gail Hamilton is a teacher-librarian at Bird's Hill School in East St. Paul, MB.
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Canada's maple leaf flag has been flown since 1965. Our Canadian Flag examines the flag's
symbolism, not merely the symbolism of the design itself, but also of its deeper meaning for
Canadian citizens. There are really two stories in the book. The first, printed in large-sized text
across the top of each left-hand page, shows the part that the flag plays in everyday life (flying at
schools and office buildings and adorning t-shirts) and on special occasions, such as
Remembrance Day and Canada Day. Fact boxes, printed in smaller text and using more advanced
vocabulary, tell a second story, that of the flag's history, the reasons behind its design and other
anecdotes particular to the maple leaf and the flag. One such anecdote tells of the search for the
perfect shade of red dye that would not fade in the sun while another tells of Canada's role in
space exploration and of Colonel Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut on board the space shuttle
Endeavour, who wore a miniature flag crest on the left shoulder of his spacesuit.