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Table of Contents

Volume XVIII Number 21
Feburary 3, 2012

Book Reviews
   
Can Thank You for My Bed.
  Doretta Groenendyk.
Review by Claire Perrin.
Preschool-kindergarten / Ages 1-5.
   
Can Juba This, Juba That.
  Helaine Becker. Illustrated by Ron Lightburn.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 2-6.
   
Can The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School.
  Laura Murray. Illustrated by Mike Lowery.
Review by Linda Ludke.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 2-7.
   
Can A Crazy Day.
  Margy Reid. Illustrated by Hazel Mitchell.
Review by Natalie Schembri.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can JoJo the Giant.
  Jane Barclay. Illustrated by Esperança Melo.
Review by Val Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Do You Have a Dog?
  Eileen Spinelli. Illustrated by Geraldo Valério.
Review by Jonine Bergen.
Preschool-grade 3 / Ages 4-8.
   
Can The Lemonman: A Picnic, a Toad and Swampwater Road.
  Natasha Ferrill. Illustrated by José Pou.
Review by Inderjit Deogun.
Kindergarten–grade 2 / Ages 5-7.
   
Can The Busy Beaver.
  Nicholas Oldland.
Review by Ian Stewart.
Kindergarten-grade 3 / Ages 5-8.
   
Can Starfall.
  Diana Kolpak. Photographs by Kathleen Finlay.
Review by Ellen Heaney.
Grades 1-3 / Ages 6-8.
   
Can Chickadee Trust.
  Angel St. Cyr. Illustrated by Diane Lucas.
Review by Todd Kyle.
Grades 1-5 / Ages 6-10.
   
Can Amazing Optical Illusions.
  IllusionWorks.
Review by Dave Jenkinson.
Grades 1 and up / Ages 6 and up.
   
Can Who Needs an Iceberg? An Arctic Ecosystem. (Ecosystem Series).
  Karen Patkau.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Who Needs a Jungle? A Rainforest Ecosystem. (Ecosystem Series).
  Karen Patkau.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can Who Needs a Swamp? A Wetland Ecosystem. (Ecosystem Series).
  Karen Patkau.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can The Great Illusion. (The Adventures of Cosmo, The Dodo Bird).
  Patrice Racine.
Review by Shelbey Krahn.
Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10.
   
Can Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
  Anne E. Neuberger. Illustrated by Kevin Davidson.
Review by Kim Skarra.
Grades 3-7 / Ages 8-12.
   
Can Duped! True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers. (It Actually Happened).
  Andreas Schroeder. Illustrated by Rémy Simard.
Review by Saeyong Kim.
Grades 4-6 / Ages 9-11.
   
Can Shannen and the Dream for a School. (The Kids' Power Series).
  Janet Wilson.
Review by Myra Junyk.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Kingdom of Caves. (Book Two).
  Richard Thake. Illustrated by Vince Chui.
Review by Jean Nickel.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Bloc Québécois. (Canada's Political Parties).
  Douglas & Patricia Baldwin.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Conservative Party. (Canada's Political Parties).
  Douglas & Patricia Baldwin.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Green Party. (Canada's Political Parties).
  Gillian Poulter.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The Liberal Party. (Canada's Political Parties).
  Douglas & Patricia Badwin.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can The New Democratic Party. (Canada's Political Parties).
  Juanita Rossiter.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can End of Days.
  Eric Walters.
Review by Nicole Dalmer.
Grades 6-11 / Ages 11-16.
   
Can I'm Not Her.
  Janet Gurtler.
Review by Joan Marshall.
Grades 8-10 / Ages 13-15.
   
Can A Red Herring Without Mustard. (A Flavia de Luce Novel).
  Alan Bradley.
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up.
   
Can Schizo. (Side Streets).
  Kim Firmston.
Review by Mark Mueller.
Grades 9-12 / Ages 12-17.
   
Can Orchestrated Murder. (Rapid Reads).
  Rick Blechta.
Review by Christina Pike.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   

DVD Review

   
Can John A.: Birth of a Country.
  Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17.
   




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