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Table of Contents

Volume XVII Number 5
October 1, 2010

Book Reviews
   
Can Humpty Dumpty and Friends: Nursery Rhymes for the Young at Heart.
  Oleg Lipchenko.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Giraffe and Bird.
  Rebecca Bender.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can Libby's Got the Beat. (Streetlights).
  Robert Rayner.
Review by Dana L. Coates.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Scary Science: 25 Creepy Experiments.
  Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone. Illustrated by Ashley Spires.
Review by Barbara McMillan.
Grades 2-7 / Ages 7-12.
   
Can Proud to Be Inuvialuit. (The Land is our Storybook).
  James Pokiak & Mindy Willett. Photographs by Tessa Macintosh.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Don't Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adults Tell You.
  Catherine Rondina. Illustrated by Kevin Sylvester.
Review by Gillian Richardson.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Home Team. (Orca Young Readers, #10).
  Eric Walters, Jerome Williams & Johnnie Williams.
Review by Rebecca King.
Grades 3-6 / Ages 8-11.
   
Can Tim Horton: From Stanley Cups to Coffee Cups. (Larger Than Life).
  Don Quinlan.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 3-8 / Ages 8-13.
   
Can Hydroelectric Power: Power from Moving Water. (Energy Revolution).
  Marguerite Rodger.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Is There a Future for Fossil Fuels? (Energy Revolution).
 

Ellen Rodger.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.

   
Can Reducing Your Foodprint: Farming, Cooking, and Eating for a Healthy Planet. (Energy Revolution).
  Ellen Rodger.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Nuclear Energy: Power from the Atom. (Energy Revolution).
  Troon Harrison Adams.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can TreeSong.
  H.E. Stewart.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Bookweirder.
  Paul Glennon.
Review by Vikki VanSickle.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The Snowball Effect. (Orca Currents).
  Deb Loughead.
Review by Emily Sobool.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Slick (Orca Currents).
  Sara Cassidy.
Review by Philip Bravo.
Grades 5-9 / Ages 10-14.
   
Can Blood and Iron: Building the Railway: (I Am Canada).
  Paul Yee.
Review by Diana Lynn Wilkes.
Grades 5-10 / Ages 10-15.
   
Can Maybe Never, Maybe Now.
  Kimberly Joy Peters.
Review by Lisa Doucet.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Winter Shadows.
  Margaret Buffie.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15.
   
Can Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens. Canadian Edition.
  Heather Wright.
Review by Kristin Butcher.
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up.
   
Can Cinkarion: The Heart of Fire. (The Karionin Chronicles, Book Two).
  J. A. Cullum.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can The Nobel Prize: The Story of Alfred Nobel and the Most Famous Prize in the World.
  Michael Worek.
Review by J. Lynn Fraser.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can How the Blacks Created Canada.
  Fil Fraser.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.
   

Professional Review

   
Can Get Graphic! Using Storyboards to Write and Draw Picture Books, Graphic Novels, or Comic Strips.
  Mark Thurman & Emily Hearn.
Review by Ann Stinner.
   


Audio CD & DVD Reviews

   
Can Le Magicien de Kaboul : A Dream for Kabul.
  Philippe Baylaucq (Writer & Director). Nathalie Barton, Yves Bisaillon & Patricia Bergeron (Producers).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

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