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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 12
February 8, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can Yellow Moon, Apple Moon.
  Pamela Porter. Illustrated by Matt James.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 1 / Birth-age 6.
   
Can Little Joy.
  Ruowen Wang. Illustrated by Wei Xu.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 2-6.
   
Can Here a Face, There a Face.
  Arlene Alda.
Review by Keith McPherson.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 2-6.
   
Can The Little Duck = Sikihpsis.
  Beth Cuthand. Illustrated by Mary Longman. Cree by Stan Cuthand.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-9.
   
Can The Princess, The Pelican and the Big Brass Band.
  Arthur Hobbs. Illustrated by Donna Assié.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Rhyme Stones. (Orca Echoes).
  Pat Skene. Illustrated by Graham Ross.
Review by Ruth Scales McMahon.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can City Homes. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Island Homes. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Mountain Homes. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Homes on the Move. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Village Homes. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Homes on the Water. (Homes Around the World).
  Nicola Barber.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Raffi's Animal Rescue. (First Novels 63).
  Sylvain Meunier. Illustrated by Élisabeth Eudes-Pascal. Translated by Sarah Cummins.
Review by Robert Groberman.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Our New Home: Immigrant Children Speak.
  Emily Hearn & Marywinn Milne, Eds.
Review by Ellen Wu.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Pink Power: The First Women's Hockey Champions. (Recordbooks).
  Lorna Schultz Nicholson.
Review by Marilynne V. Black.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can The Anne of Green Gables Storybook: Based on the Kevin Sullivan Film of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Classic Novel.
  Fiona McHugh.
Review by Elizabeth Walker.
Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up.
   
Can The Law of Three. (A Sarah Martin Mystery).
  Caroline Rennie Pattison.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Choice of Colours: The Pioneering African-American Quarterbacks Who Changed the Face of Football. (Recordbooks).
  John Danakas.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas.
  Laurence Hyde.
Review by Sylvia Pantaleo.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Pain & Wastings. (Orca Soundings).
  Carrie Mac.
Review by Karen Rankin.
Grades 9-11 / Ages 14-16.
   
Can Mazo de la Roche: Rich and Famous Writer. (The Quest Library; 27).
  Heather Kirk.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.
   

Professional Review

   
Can Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing.
  Graham Foster & Toni L. Marasco.
Review by Kristen Ferguson.
   
Can Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship: Inclusive Resources, Strategies and Policy Directives for Addressing Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans-Identified and Two-Spirited Realities in School and Public Libraries.
  Alvin Schrader & Kristopher Wells.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
   
Can Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter.
  Pearce J. Carefoote.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
   

VHS & DVD Reviews

   
Can Nightmare at School.
  Catherine Arcand (Director). Michèle Bélanger (Producer).
Review by Elizabeth Walker.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up
   
Can Between: Living in the Hyphen.
  Anne Marie Nakagawa (Writer & Director). Bonnie Thompson (Producer). Graydon McCrea (Executive Producer).
Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny.
  Mark Sandiford (Writer & Director). Mark Sandiford & Kent Martin (Producers).
Review by Keith McPherson.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Democracy 4 Dummies: A How-To Documentary.
  Sophia Male (Writer & Director). Sophia Male (Producer).
Review by Ian Stewart.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Adrenaline Bach.
  Marten Berkman (Writer & Director). Selwyn Jacob (Producer). Rina Fraticelli (Executive Producer).
Review by Carolyn Crippen.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Manufactured Landscapes.
  Jennifer Baichwal (Director). Peter Starr, Gerry Flahive, Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron & Jennifer Baichwal (Producers).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   




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