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Table of Contents

Volume XI Number 15
April 1 , 2005

Book Reviews
   
Can Ben Over Night.
  Sarah Ellis. Illustrated by Kim LaFave.
Review by Christina Neigel.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Ruby Sings the Blues.
  Niki Daly.
Review by Barbara Taylor.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Int The Sugar Child.
  Monique de Varennes. Illustrated by Leonid Gore.
Review by Barbara Taylor.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can Something to Tell the Grandcows.
  Eileen Spinelli. Illustrated by Bill Slavin.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Wherever Bears Be: A Story for Two Voices.
  Sue Ann Alderson. Illustrated by Arden Johnson.
Review by Rosemary Hollett.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can The Magical Christmas Light of Old Nova Scotia.
  Bruce Nunn. Illustrated by Yolanda Poplawska.
Review by Alison Mews.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Taekwondo in Action. (Sports in Action).
  Kelley MacAulay & Bobbie Kalman. Photographs by Marc Crabtree.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Skiing in Action. (Sports in Action).
  John Crossingham & Bobbie Kalman. Illustrations by Bonna Rouse.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Track Events in Action. (Sports in Action).
  John Crossingham & Bobbie Kalman. Illustrations by Bonna Rouse.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Field Events in Action. (Sports in Action).
  Bobbie Kalman. Illustrations by Bonna Rouse.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can The Ghost of Lunenburg Manor. (Tom and Liz Austen Mystery).
  Eric Wilson.
Review by Julie Hunt.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Danger in Dinosaur Valley. (The Screech Owls series; 10).
  Roy MacGregor.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can The West Coast Murders. (The Screech Owls series; 12).
  Roy MacGregor.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Amazing Animal Adventures at the Poles. (Going Wild).
  Brian Keating.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Making It Home: The Story of Catharine Parr Traill. (Stories of Canada).
  Lynn Westerhout. Illustrated by Liz Milkau.
Review by Andrea Szilagyi.
Grades 4-8 /Ages 9-13.
   
Can When Lightning Strikes. (Crossings of Promise).
  Hugh Alan Smith.
Review by Shelly Tyler.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can When the River Calls. (Crossings of Promise).
  Hugh Alan Smith.
Review by Shelly Tyler.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Out Standing in My Field.
  Patrick Jennings.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can D-Day: Canadian Heroes of the Famous World War II Invasion. (Amazing Stories).
  Tom Douglas.
Review by Greg Bak.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Red Land, Yellow River: A Story From the Cultural Revolution.
  Ange Zhang.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Touch of Something Wild.
  Colleen Rutherford Archer. Illustrated by Judi Pennanen.
Review by Carole Marion.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Roberta Bondar: The Exceptional Achievements of Canada’s First Woman Astronaut. (Amazing Stories).
  Joan Dixon.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.
   
Can Soapstone Carving for Children: Out of a Stone a Bird Was Born.
  Bonnie Gosse and Dave Gosse.
Review by J. Lynn Fraser.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Good for Nothing.
  Michel Noël. Translated by Shelley Tanaka.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16.
   
Can The Big Night Out.
  Jeanne Beker. Illustrated by Nathalie Dion.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Spies: The Underground World of Secrets, Gadgets and Lies.
  David Owen.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Bold Privateers: Terror, Plunder and Profit on Canada’s Atlantic Coast.
  Roger Marsters.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.

Video Reviews

Can El Contrato: The Contract.
  Min Sook Lee (Director). Karen King-Chigbo (Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can The Fifth Province.
  Donald McWilliams (Director). Adam Symansky & Marcy Page (Producers).
Review by Tom Chambers.
Grade 12 and up / Ages 17 and up.
   

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