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Table of Contents

Volume XVIII Number 22
February 10, 2012

Book Reviews
   
Can The Jelly Bean Row.
  Susan Penn Taylor. Illustrated by Elizabeth Pratt.
Review by Roxy Garstad.
Preschool-grade 1 / Ages 3-6.
   
Can The Circle Game.
  Joni Mitchell. Illustrated by Brian Deines.
Review by Valerie Nielsen.
Preschool-grade 2 / Ages 4-7.
   
Can Canadian Flag. (Canadian Icons).
  Lesley Evans Ogden.
Review by Kate Hachborn.
Grades 2-4 / Ages 7-9.
   
Can A Fraidy Pants Liar.
  Jaylene Duckwork [The Turk]. Illustrated by Topher Quiring [Toph].
Review by Barb Janicek.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Life Science Fair Projects.
  Jordan McGill.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 3-5 / Ages 8-10.
   
Can Agent Angus. (Orca Currents).
  K. L. Denman.
Review by Yahong Chi.
Grades 4 7 / Ages 9-12.
   
Can Catla and the Vikings.
  Mary Elizabeth Nelson.
Review by Karen Boyd.
Grades 4-8 / Ages 9-13.
   
Can September. (Conspiracy 365).
  Gabrielle Lord.
Review by Mark Mueller.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can October. (Conspiracy 365).
  Gabrielle Lord.
Review by Mark Mueller.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can November. (Conspiracy 365).
  Gabrielle Lord.
Review by Mark Mueller.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can December. (Conspiracy 365).
  Gabrielle Lord.
Review by Mark Mueller.
Grades 4-9 / Ages 9-14.
   
Can Showoff.
  Gordon Korman.
Review by Tanya Boudreau.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can Dinosaurs. (Learn to Draw).
  Jordan McGill, ed.
Review by Kate Hachborn.
Grades 5-7 / Ages 10-12.
   
Can Brothers Far From Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates. (Dear Canada).
  Jean Little.
Review by Dorothea Wilson-Scorgie.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
   
Can The War of 1812:1812-1814. (Canada at War).
  Douglas Baldwin & Patricia Baldwin.
Review by Gail Hamilton.
Grades 6-8 / Ages 11-13.
   
Can If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor. (Dear Canada).
  Jean Little.
Review by Beth Wilcox.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can The Witch Guardian.
  Cynthia Stacey.
Review by Daphne Hamilton-Nagorsen.
Grades 6-9 / Ages 11-14.
   
Can Under the Mound.
  Cynthia Heinrichs.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 6-10 / Ages 11-15.
   
Can What Happened to Serenity?
  P.J. Sarah Collins.
Review by Charlotte Duggan.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Battle Cries in the Wilderness: The Struggle for North America in the Seven Years' War. (Canadians at War).
  Bernd Horn.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.
Grades 7-9 / Ages 12-14.
   
Can Canada's Constitutional Monarchy.
  Nathan Tidridge.
Review by Val Ken Lem.
Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17.
   
Can The Source of Light.
  David Richards.
Review by Ann Ketcheson.
Grades 9-11 / Ages 14-17.
   
Can Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
  J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds.
Review by Ronald Hore.
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up.
   
Can Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalog Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1970. 114th ed.
  Hugh Jefferies, ed.
Review by Aileen Wortley.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can When I Kill You. (Rapid Reads).
  Michelle Wan.
Review by Christina Pike.
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up.

Professional Reading

Can Caught in the Middle: Reading and Writing in the Transition Years.
  David Booth.
Review by Jocelyn A Dimm.
   
Can Learning: Teaching.
  John Norris.
Review by Thomas F. Chambers.

DVD Reviews

Can [antoine].
  Laura Bari (Director, Writer & Producer). Mila Aung-Thwin & Daniel Cross (Executive Producers).
Review by Charlotte Enns.
Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up.
   
Can Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague = La variole: Anatomie d'un fléau.
  Jefferson Lewis (Director & Writer). Kenneth Hirsch, Adam Symansky, Christian Medawar & Line Richard (Producers). Kenneth Hirsch, Ravida Din & Yves Bisaillon (Executive Producers).
Review by Frank Loreto.
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up.
   
Can I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors = J'étais une enfant de survivants de l'holocauste.
  Anne Marie Fleming (Director & Writer). Michael Fukushima & Gerry Flahive (Producers). David Verrall & Silva Basmajian (Executive Producers).
Review by Joanne Peters.
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up.

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