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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 4
October 12 , 2007

Book Reviews

   
Can Sing a Song of Mother Goose.
  Barbara Reid.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Birth-age 4.
   
Can Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes.
  Heather Collins.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 1 / Birth-age 6.
   
Can Where is the Star? A Book of Shapes from Ghana.
  Kathy Knowles.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-5.
   
Can Open and Closed: A Book of Opposites from Ghana.
  Kathy Knowles.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Ages 1-5.
   
Can The Months: Fun with Friends All Year ‘Round! (Read Me A Poem).
  Sara Coleridge. Illustrated by Kathy Weller.
Review by Laura Ludtke.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Mom and Dad Don’t Live Together Anymore.
  Kathy Stinson. Illustrated by Vian Oelofsen.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can Pup and Hound Scare a Ghost. (Kids Can Read).
  Susan Hood. Illustrated by Linda Hendry.
Review by Shannon Ozirny.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-6.
   
Can Chester.
  Mélanie Watt.
Review by Reesa Cohen.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can A Bumblebee Sweater.
  Betty Waterton. Illustrated by Kim LaFave.
Review by Jeannette Timmerman.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can Julie Black Belt. (The Kung Fu Chronicles).
  Oliver Chin. Illustrated by Charlene Chua.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice.
  Frank Asch. Illustrated by Devin Asch.
Review by Reesa Cohen.
Kindergarten-grade 4 / Ages 5-9.
   
Can Chicken Balloons. (Eggman #1).
  Peter Merry. Illustrated by Denis Proulx.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Bugs Up Close.
  Diane Swanson. Illustrated by Paul Davidson.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Stories at the Door.
  Jan Andrews. Illustrated by Francis Blake.
Review by Ruth Scales McMahon.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can

The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder.

  Wallace Edwards.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can Catching Forever. (Street Lights).
  Laurel Dee Gugler.
Review by Georgie Perigny.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Naturally Wild Musicians: The Wondrous World of Animal Song.
  Peter Christie.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger.
  Lee Edward Fodi.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can The Invisible Rules of Zoë Lama.
  Tish Cohen.
Review by Brianne Grant.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can SOS: Stories of Survival: True Tales of Disaster, Tragedy, and Courage.
  Ed Butts.
Review by Elizabeth Larssen.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can When the Bough Breaks.
  Irene N. Watts.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-15.
   
Can Beowulf.
  Welwyn Wilton Katz. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Porcupine.
  Meg Tilly.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can All the Way Home.
  Natale Ghent.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can The Black Pyramid. (The Mole Wars; Book 2).
  J. Fitzgerald McCurdy.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Speechless.
  Valerie Sherrard.
Review by Diana Lynn Wilkes.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Fire on the Water: The Red-hot Career of Superstar Rower Ned Hanlan. (Recordbooks).
  Wendy A. Lewis.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Valour at Vimy Ridge: The Great Victory of World War I. (Amazing Stories).
  Tom Douglas.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can The Black Sheep.
  Yvonne Collins & Sandy Rideout.
Review by Caitlin J. Berry.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can The Crash. (HIP-JR).
  Paul Kropp.
Review by Elaine Fuhr.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Mirror with a Memory: A Nation’s Story in Photographs.
  Janice Weaver.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Out of Line: Growing Up Soviet.
  Tina Grimberg.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Grades 6-10 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can Flight of the Tiger Moth.
  Mary Woodbury.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can A is for Angst.
  Barbara Haworth-Attard.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Scarred. (SideStreets).
  Monique Polak.
Review by Rachel Steen.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Twilight Box. (Tales of Terre II).
  Troon Harrison.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Strange But True: Canadian Stories of Horror and Terror.
  John Robert Columbo.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel.
  Drew Hayden Taylor.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16.
   
Can Illustrated Guide to Snowmobile Racing.
  Linda Aksomitis & David Aksomitis.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can X in Flight.
  Karen Rivers.
Review by Thom Knutson.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

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