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Table of Contents

Volume XVI Number 16
December 18, 2009

Book Reviews

   
Can Hockey Night Tonight: The Hockey Song.
  Tom Connors. Illustrated by Brenda Jones.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool / Birth-age 4.
   
Can The Red Scarf.
  Anne Villeneuve.
Review by Gregory Bryan.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-7.
   
Can Nana’s Getting Married.
  Heather Hartt-Sussman. Illustrated by Georgia Graham.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Chuck in the City.
  Jordan Wheeler. Illustrated by Christopher Auchter.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can The Next Step. (Streetlights).
  Beth Pollock.
Review by Laura Dunford.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Preparing for Disasters. (Disaster Alert!).
  Bobbie Kalman & Kelley MacAulay.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Living in Shelters. (Disaster Alert!).
  Bobbie Kalman & Kelley MacAulay.
Review by Harriet Zaidman.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can What’s the Big Idea?: Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever.
  Helaine Becker. Illustrated by Steve Attoe.
Review by Wendy Williams.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can The Children of Africville.
  Christine Welldon.
Review by Marilynne V. Black.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can A Terrible Roar of Water. (Disaster Strikes, #5).
  Penny Draper.
Review by Jeannine Stickle.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can A Thousand Years of Pirates.
  William Gilkerson.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 5-9 / Age 10-14.
   
Can Big Train: The Legendary Ironman of Sport, Lionel Conacher. (Recordbooks).
  Richard Brignall.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Mystery of the Moonlight Murder: An Early Adventure of John Diefenbaker. (Leaders & Legacies, #1).
  Roderick Benns.
Review by Mary Thomas.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Juggling Fire.
  Joanne Bell.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Wasted. (Side Streets).
  Brent R. Sherrard.
Review by Christina Pike.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Folly.
  Marthe Jocelyn.
Review by Ruth Latta.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalog Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. 112th ed.
  Hugh Jefferies.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Best Laid Plans. (Side Streets).
  Christine Hart.
Review by Emily Sobool.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.
   

Professional Reading

   
Can It’s Critical: Classroom Strategies for Promoting Critical and Creative Comprehension.
  David Booth.
Review by Betty Klassen.

DVD Review

   
Can Flipping Out.
  Yoav Shamir. (Writer & Director). Michael Sharfstein, Philippa Kowarsky & Kent Martin (Producers).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.



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