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Table of Contents

Volume XII Number 18
May 12 , 2006

Book Reviews
   
Can Scaredy Squirrel.
  Mélanie Watt.
Review by Ruth Scales McMahon.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can Mocking Birdies.
  Annette Simon.
Review by Barb Taylor.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can Franklin has the Hiccups. (Kids Can Read, Level 2).
  Sharon Jennings. Illustrated by Céleste Gagnon, John Lei, Sasha McIntyre & Laura Vegys.
Review by Luella Sumner.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Pup and Hound at Sea. (Kids Can Read, Level 1).
  Susan Hood. Illustrated by Linda Hendry.
Review by Lisa O'Hara.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Franklin’s Bear. (Red Go Bananas).
  Chris d’Lacey. Illustrated by Thomas Taylor.
Review by Ellie Contursi.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can The Queen’s Feet. (Northern Lights Books for Children).
  Sarah Ellis. Illustrated by Dušan Petricic.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Up, Up and Away: A Round-the-World Puzzle Adventure.
  Scot Ritchie.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Sea Dog. (Orca Echoes).
  Dayle Campbell Gaetz. Illustrated by Amy Meissner.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Discover the Stars. (Kids Can Read, Level 3).
  Cynthia Pratt Nicolson. Illustrated by Bill Slavin.
Review by Jeannette Timmerman.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Adam’s Tropical Adventure. (First Novels, No. 56).
  Marie Décary. Illustrated by Steve Beshwaty. Translated by Sarah Cummins.
Review by Barb Taylor.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius.
  Frank Asch.
Review by Geneviève M.Y. Valleau.
Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up.
   
Can The Magical Horses: A Fairy Tale for the Young and the Young at Heart.
  Beate Epp.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Karate in Action. (Sports in Action).
  Kelley MacAulay & Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Judo in Action. (Sports in Action).
  John Crossingham & Bobbie Kalman. Photographs by Marc Crabtree.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Yoga in Action. (Sports in Action).
  Kelley MacAulay & Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Fishing in Action. (Sports in Action).
  Hadley Dyer & Bobbie Kalman.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can When I Was a Boy Neruda Called Me Policarpo: A Memoir.
  Poli Délano. Illustrated by Manuel Monroy. Poems by Pablo Neruda. Translated by Sean Higgins.
Review by Lois Brymer.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can The Devil, the Banshee and Me.
  L.M.Falcone.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can The Hunk Machine. (The Salt & Pepper Chronicles #2).
  David A. Poulsen.
Review by Laura Dodwell-Groves.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Ferdinand Magellan: Circumnavigating the World. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  Katharine Bailey.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can James Cook: The Pacific Coast and Beyond. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  R.A. Beales.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Samuel de Champlain: From New France to Cape Cod. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  Adrianna Morganelli.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Ponce de León: Exploring Florida and Puerto Rico. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  Rachel Eagen.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Sieur de Salle: New World Adventurer. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  John Zronik.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Marco Polo: Overland to China. (In the Footsteps of Explorers Series).
  Alexander Zelenyj.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Almost Eden.
  Anita Horrocks.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can John Diefenbaker: The Outsider Who Refused to Quit. (Canadian Prime Ministers Warts & All, #13).
  Lanny Boutin. Illustrated by Gabriel Morrissette.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Int The Great Cow Race. (Bone #2).
  Jeff Smith.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up.
   
Int Inkspell.
  Cornelia Funke. Translated from the German by Andrea Bell.
Review by Lorraine Douglas.
Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up.
   
Can Leslie McFarlane’s Hockey Stories.
  Leslie McFarlane. Brian McFarlane, ed.
Review by Sandi Harrison.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can My Children Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary.
  Nadja Halilbegovich.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can The Serpent’s Egg. (Serpent’s Egg Trilogy, Bk. 1).
  J. Fitzgerald McCurdy.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Rhino Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife. (Firefly Animal Rescue).
  Garry Hamilton.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Int You Are Not Alone: Teens Talk About Life After the Loss of a Parent.
  Lynne B. Hughes.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.
   

Professional Reading

   
Can Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers.
  Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan.
Review by Reesa Cohen.
   
Can Talking, Writing, & Thinking About Books: 101 Ready-to-use Classroom Activities That Build Reading Comprehension.
  Jo Phenix.
Review by Gina Varty.
   
Can Speak, Listen, and Learn: Building Speaking, Discussion, and Presentation Skills in Every Classroom.
  Colleen Abbott & Sally Godinho.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
   
Can Literacy, Libraries and Learning: Using Books and Online Resources to Promote Reading, Writing and Research.
  Ray Doiron & Marlene Asselin, eds.
Review by Reesa Cohen.
   

Video and DVD Reviews

   
Can The Ninth.
  Pierre-Henry Salfati (Writer & Director). Paul Saadoun, Christina Ruiz de Luque & Véronique Rabuteau (Producers from France). Éric Michel & Joanne Carrière (Producers from Canada). Detlef Ziegert & Yvonne Ruocco (Producers from Germany).
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can A Day So Beautiful.
  Danny Parr (Writer & Director). Joshua Dorsey (Before Film Producer). Germaine Ying Gee Wong (NFB Producer). Sally Bochner (Executive Producer).
Review by Cathy Vincent-Linderoos.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

 



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