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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 21
June 13, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can One Hippo Hops. (Alligator Tales).
  Jane Yolen. Illustrated by Vlasta van Kampen. Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Hip Hippos. (Alligator Tales).
  Jane Yolen. Illustrated by Vlasta van Kampen.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Sad, Mad, Glad Hippos. (Alligator Tales).
  Jane Yolen. Illustrated by Vlasta van Kampen.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Saffy.
  Paola Opal.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-4.
   
Can Canada in Colours.
  Per-Henrik Gürth.
Review by Bruce Dyck.
Preschool / Ages 2-4.
   
Can Rosie and Buttercup.
  Chieri Uegaki. Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can The Princess Who Had Almost Everything.
  Mireille Levert. Illustrated by Josée Masse.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 4 / Ages 3-9.
   
Can Iris Has a Virus.
  Arlene Alda. Illustrated by Lisa Desimini.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Looking Closely Through the Forest. (Looking Closely).
  Frank Serafini.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Looking Closely Along the Shore. (Looking Closely).
  Frank Serafini.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can 123 I Can Draw! (Starting Art).
  Irene Luxbacher.
Review by Elizabeth Walker.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can 123 I Can Make Prints! (Starting Art).
  Irene Luxbacher.
Review by Elizabeth Walker.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can My Big, New Bed. (Tadpoles).
  Margaret Nash. Illustrated by Beccy Blake.
Review by Renée Englot.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Sam's Sunflower. (Tadpoles).
  Jillian Powell. Illustrated by Johanna Boccardo.
Review by Deborah Pethrick.
Kindergarten-grade 1 / Ages 5-6.
   
Can Yellow Blues.
  Sean L. Moore.
Review by Devon Greyson.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can The Funny Faceoff.
  Irene Punt. Illustrated by Ken Steacy.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can The Meanest Teacher in the World: A Collection of Miss Flint Stories. [Previous title: Adventures with Miss Flint.]
  Don Sawyer. Illustrated by Bob Beeson.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Tuk and the Whale.
  Raquel Rivera. Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber.
Review by Min So.
Grades 2-6 / Ages 7-11.
   
Can The Secret Club. (Go Girl!).
  Chrissie Perry. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Lisa Hanson O'Hara.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can The Worst Gymnast. (Go Girl!).
  Thalia Kalkipsakis. Illustrated by Ash Oswald.
Review by Lisa Hanson O'Hara.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Mark Twain: An American Star. (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History).
  Elizabeth MacLeod.
Review by Janice Foster.
Grades 3-7 /Ages 8-12.
   
Can Wonder Kids: The Remarkable Lives of Nine Child Prodigies.
  Charis Cotter.
Review by Catherine Howett.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Desert Danger: Tim Jackson, North Africa, WWII. (My Story).
  Jim Eldridge.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Wild Animals in Captivity.
  Rob Laidlaw.
Review by Marilynne V. Black.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 7-12.
   
Can Marked. (Orca Currents).
  Norah McClintock.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Chief Honor. (Orca Sports).
  Sigmund Brouwer.
Review by Libby McKeever.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Shadow of Doubt. (A Robyn Hunter Mystery).
  Norah McClintock.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Dinosaur Fever.
  Marion Woodson.
Review by Ellen Wu.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Lightning and Blackberries.
  Joanne K. Jefferson.
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can High Stakes. (Bayview High).
  H.A. Levigne.
Review by Andrea Galbraith.
Grades 6-10 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  Alan Grant, reteller. Illustrated by Cam Kennedy.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can Gravity Journal.
  Gail Sidonie Sobat.
Review by Marsha Skrypuch.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Trouble with Cupid.
  Laura Langston.
Review by Jen Waters.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can Possession. (The Runestone Saga, Book III).
  Chris Humphreys.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   

DVD & Video Reviews

   
Can Heads Up!
  Adamm Liley (Writer & Director). Annette Clarke (Producer).
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can River of Life.
  Werner Walcher (Writer & Director). Selwyn Jacob (Producer). Rina Fraticelli (Executive Producer).
Review by Betty Klassen.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Dark Side of the White Lady.
  Patricia Henriquez (Director). Colette Loumede (Producer).
Review by Reece Steinberg.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Reading Alistair MacLeod.
  William D. MacGillivray (Writer & Director). Terry Greenlaw (Picture Plant Producer). Kent Martin (NFB Producer).
Review by Libby McKeever.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can Memory Adrift.
  Pauline Voisard (Writer & Director). Pauline Voisard (Productions VF Inc. Producer). Zjacques Turgeon (NFB Producer).
Review by Helen Norrie.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   
Can Between Two Notes: A Utopia That Transcends Borders.
  Florence Strauss (Director). Serge Lalou (Les Films d'Ici Producer). Amit Breuer (Amythos Films Producer). Colette Loumède (NFB Producer). François Duplat (Bel Air Media Producer).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Professional.
   

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