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Table of Contents

Volume XV Number 2
September 12, 2008

Book Reviews
   
Can What Would You Do?
  Elaine Larivière Chaput.
Review by Min So.
Preschool / Ages 2-4.
   
Can A Treasury of Jillian Jiggs.
  Phoebe Gilman.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can The King Has Goat Ears.
  Katarina Jovanovic. Illustrated by Philippe Béha.
Review by Wayne Serebrin.
Preschool-grade 4 / Ages 3-9.
   
Can The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate.
  Carrie Muller & Jacqueline Halsey. Illustrated by Eric Orchard.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can The Sleeping Porch.
  Ian Wallace.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can A Moose in a Maple Tree: The All-Canadian 12 Days of Christmas.
  Troy Townsin. Illustrated by Jennifer Harrington.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Kindergarten-grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can Abuelos.
  Pat Mora. Illustrated by Amelia Lau Carling.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can How to Outplay a Bully.
  Nancy Wilcox Richards. Illustrations by David Sourwine.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Mary's Atlas: Mary Meets Manitoba.
  Gwen Smid. Illustrated by Sonia Nadeau.
Review by Carrie Subtelny.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission. (Flint Future Detective Series).
  Christopher Paul Curtis.
Review by Catherine Howett.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Dear Toni.
  Cyndi Sand-Eveland.
Review by Anna Swanson.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Int Ookpik: The Travels of a Snowy Owl.
  Bruce Hiscock.
Review by Margaret Snow.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Crazy Canadian Trivia 3.
  Pat Hancock. Illustrated by Bill Dickson.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 2-6 / Ages 7-11.
   
Can Amazing Things Animals Do.
  Marilyn Baillie. Illustrated by Romi Caron.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Go Green, Canada! Puzzles, Games and Quizzes for a Healthy Planet.
  Jeff Sinclair.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure.
  Liam O'Donnell. Illustrated by Mike Deas.
Review by Dana Eagles-Daley.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Nine Lives of Travis Keating.
  Jill MacLean.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher. (Marty Chan Mystery Series #3).
  Marty Chan.
Review by Jane Bridle.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Great Canadian Puzzles.
  Illustrated by Dominique Pelletier.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Unknown Soldier.
  Linda Granfield.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can The Adventures of Caraway Kim — Right Wing.
  Don Truckey.
Review by Karen Rankin.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Out on a Limb.
  Gail Banning.
Review by Tara Williston.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Urgum The Axe Man.
  Kjartan Poskitt. Illustrated by Philip Reeve.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Urgum and the Seat of Flames.
  Kjartan Poskitt. Illustrated by Philip Reeve.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Grim Hill: The Secret Deepens.
  Linda DeMeulemeester.
Review by Caitlin J. Berry.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Try This at Home: Planet-friendly Projects for Kids.
  Jackie Farquhar.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Ghost Voyages IV: Champlain & Cartier.
  Cora Taylor.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Fantastic Female Filmmakers. (Women's Hall of Fame Series).
  Suzanne Simoni.
Review by Julie Chychota.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can Zorgamazoo.
  Robert Paul Weston.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Ancient Ocean Blues.
  Jack Mitchell.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Séance.
  Iain Lawrence.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Libertad.
  Alma Fullerton.
Review by Pam Klassen-Dueck.
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up.
   
Can Wolf Man.
  Edo van Belkom.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can My One Hundred Adventures.
  Polly Horvath.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 7-11 / Ages 12-16.
   
Can Storm. (Triskelia Book 3).
  Carrie Mac.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 7-11 / Ages 12-16.
   
Can The Shadow of Malabron. (The Perilous Realm series).
  Thomas Wharton.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Learning to Fly. (Orca Soundings).
  Paul Yee.
Review by Huai-Yang Lim.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery.
  Susan Juby.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can Y in the Shadows. (The XYZ Triology, Book 2).
  Karen Rivers.
Review by Thom Knutson.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

Professional Reading

Can The Poetry Experience: Choosing and Using Poetry in the Classroom.
  Sheree Fitch & Larry Swartz.
Review by Betty Klassen.


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