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Table of Contents

Volume XIV Number 8
December 7, 2007

Book Reviews

   
Can Who’s in the Tub?
  Sylvie Jones. Illustrated by Pascale Constantin.
Review by Alison Mews.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 2-5.
   
Can Bagel’s Lucky Hat.
  Hector Mumbly.
Review by Sandi Harrison.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-6.
   
Can The Octonauts & the Sea of Shade.
  Meomi. (Vicki Wong & Michael Murphy).
Review by Myra Junyk.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-6.
   
Can Much More Munsch!: A Robert Munsch Collection.
  Robert Munsch. Illustrated by Michael Martchenko and Alan and Lea Daniel.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can The Painted Chest.
  Judith Christine Mills.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can The Day It All Blew Away.
  Lisa Cinar.
Review by Keith McPherson.
Grades 1-6 / Ages 6-11.
   
Can Hockey Superstars 2007-2008.
  Paul Romanuk.
Review by Rosemary Hollett.
Grades 1 and up / Ages 6 and up.
   
Can Shu-Li and Tamara.
  Paul Yee. Illustrated by Shaoli Wang.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can TJ and the Quiz Kids. (Orca Young Readers).
  Hazel Hutchins.
Review by Shannon Ozirny.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Alex and the Ironic Gentleman.
  Adrienne Kress.
Review by Caitlin J. Berry.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Titanic.
  Jim Pipe.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Max Finder Mystery: Collected Casebook, Volume 3.
  Liam O’Donnell. Illustrated by Michael Cho.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can How Soccer Works.
  Keltie Thomas. Illustrated by Stephen MacEachern.
Review by Catherine Howett and
Alexandra Norris.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Maggie and the Chocolate War. (A Kids’ Power Book).
  Michelle Mulder.
Review by Lori Giles-Smith.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can The Inuit Though of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations.
  Alootook Ipellie with David MacDonald.
Review by Marilynne V. Black.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can A Deadly Distance.
  Heather Down.
Review by Deborah Mervold.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Smart-opedia: The Amazing Book About Everything.
  Eve Drobot, translator.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Dangerous Crossings!: Ten Daring Treks Across Land, Sea, and Air. (True Stories From the Edge).
  Antonia Banyard.
Review by Elizabeth Larssen.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can Two Foot Punch. (Orca Sports).
  Anita Daher.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Rebel’s Tag. (Orca Currents).
  K.L. Denman.
Review by Marina Cohen.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can The Last Flight of the Birdman. (1912: The Mackenzie Davis Files; 2).
  Dave Glaze.
Review by Elaine Fuhr.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Maple Leafs A-Z.
  Mike Leonetti. Illustrated by Greg Banning.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can The Secret Journey of Pauline Siddhartha. (Pauline.btw Book Three).
  Edeet Ravel.
Review by Georgie Perigny.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can Power Plays.
  Maureen Ulrich.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art.
  Shelley Falconer & Shawna White.
Review by Gail de Vos.
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up.
   
Can House Party. (Orca Soundings).
  Eric Walters.
Review by Diana Lynn Wilkes.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Old Dog.
  Teresa Cárdenas. Translated by David Unger.
Review by Janice Foster.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Burn: The Life Story of Fire.
  Tanya Lloyd Kyi.
Review by Fern Reirson.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Out of Order.
  Robin Stevenson.
Review by Jennifer Ariel Caldwell.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 14-17.

 

   

Video & DVD Reviews

   
Can Breaking Ranks.
  Michelle Mason (Writer & Director). Leah Mallen & Trish Dolman
(Screen Siren Pictures Producers). Tracey Friesen (NFB Producer). Rina
Fraticelli (NFB Executive Producer).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   

 



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