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Table of Contents

Volume XII Number 10
January 20, 2006

Book Reviews
   
Can The Way to Slumberland.
  L.M. Montgomery. Illustrated by Rachel Bédard.
Review by Lisa Doucet.
Preschool / Ages 1-3.
   
Can What Do You Want?
  Lars Klinting. Translated by Maria Lundin.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool /Ages 1-3.
   
Can When You Were Small.
  Sara O’Leary. Illustrated by Julie Morstad.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 2-6.
   
Can Ned Goes to Bed.
  Isabelle Jossa.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Preschool-kindergarten / Ages 3-5.
   
Can True Friends A Tale from Tanzania.
  John Kilaka. Translated by Shelley Tanaka.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Franklin Celebrates. (A Franklin TV Storybook).
  Sharon Jennings. Illustrated by Sean Jeffrey, Sasha McIntyre and Alice Sinker.
Review by Ruth Scales McMahon.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can Sink or Swim.
  Valerie Coulman. Illustrated by Rogé.
Review by Sandi Harrison.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 3-8.
   
Can Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers. (Science Matters).
  Melanie Ostopowich.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Water Pollution. (Science Matters).
  Melanie Ostopowich.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can The Water Cycle. (Science Matters).
  Frances Purslow.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Precipitation. (Science Matters).
  Frances Purslow.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Water Power. (Science Matters).
  Christine Webster.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Glaciers. (Science Matters).
  Christine Webster.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-4 / Ages 6-9.
   
Can Imagine a Day.
  Sarah L. Thompson. Illustrated by Rob Gonsalves.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-5 / Ages 6-10.
   
Can Uncle Gus’s Magic Box.
  Ted van Lieshout. Illustrated by Philip Hopman. Translated by Simona Sideri.
Review by Ellie Contursi.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can The Lost Locket.
  Carol Matas. Illustrated by Susan Gardos.
Review by Meredith MacKeen.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Forever: The Annual Hockey Classic.
  Roy MacGregor. Illustrated by Brian Deines.
Review by Lorraine Douglas.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can The Kids Book of Great Canadians.
  Elizabeth MacLeod. Illustrated by John Mantha.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Christmas at Wapos Bay. (From Many Peoples).
  Jordan Wheeler & Dennis Jackson.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Grizzly’s Home and Other Northwest Coast Children’s Stories.
  Robert James Challenger.
Review by Lois Brymer.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Strange and Spooky Stories A Haunted Canada Book.
  Pat Hancock. Illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski.
Review by Georgie Perigny.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Full Throttle. (Redline Racing Series).
  Anthony Hampshire.
Review by Ellie Contursi.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Hockey Superstars All-Time Greats!
  Paul Romanuk.
Review by John Dryden.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Under a Living Sky. (Orca Young Readers).
  Joseph Simons. Illustrated by John Beder.
Review by Jeannette Timmerman.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can A Bloom of Friendship: The Story of the Canadian Tulip Festival (My Canada Series).
  Anne Renaud. Illustrated by Ashley Spires.
Review by Grace Sheppard.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Summer of the Spotted Owl. (A Dinah Galloway Mystery).
  Melanie Jackson.
Review by Wendy Williams.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Magnificent Women in Music. (The Women’s Hall of Fame Series).
  Heather Ball.
Review by Elizabeth Larssen.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Whale Rescue Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife. (Firefly Animal Rescue).
  Erich Hoyt.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Goals and Dreams: A Celebration of Canadian Women’s Soccer.
  Shel Brødsgaard and Bob Mackin.
Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can Battle Scars.
  John Wilson.
Review by Jen Waters.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can How to Be a Hero on Earth 5.
  Rob Payne.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Wild Orchid.
  Beverley Brenna.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Just Some Stuff I Wrote: Stories.
  William Bell.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.
   
Can Just Ask Us: A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms.
  Sylvia Olsen.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Maurice Duplessis: Powerbroker, Politician. (Quest Library, No. 26).
  Marguerite Paulin.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 10-12 / Ages 15-17.
   
Can Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey.
  Cecil Harris.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

Professional

   
Can Educating Our Children: The Guide to Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Activities.
  Pierre Gauvin.
Review by Gina Varty.
   

Video Reviews

   
Can Music for Whose Ears. (My Brand New Life).
  David ‘Sudz’ Sutherland & Kaveh Nabatian (Directors). Ina Fichman (La Fête Producer). Pierre Lapointe (NFB Producer). Ina Fichman (La Fête Executive Producer). Sally Bochner (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Stephanie Yamniuk.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Scary Tales HalloweenDay of the Dead. (My Brand New Life).
  German Gutierrez & Kaveh Nabatian (Directors). Ina Fichman (La Fête Producer). Pierre Lapointe (NFB Producer). Ina Fichman (La Fête Executive Producer). Sally Bochner (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Gail de Vos.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can When Hockey Came to Belfast.
  Linda Conway (Director & Writer). Selwyn Jacob (Producer). Rina Fraticelli (Executive Producer).
Review by Jocelyn A. Dimm.
Grades 5 & up / Ages 10 & up.
   

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