CHECK IT OUT! The Journal of the Canadian School Library Association In this issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS SOURCES - 1999 - A compilation of useful Volume 19, Number 3 information for Teachers Sources & Teacher-Librarians · CSLA & ATLC Executive Contact List...... 3 · Provincial Teacher Librarian Association Presidents ...... 4 Plus: · Periodicals for Teacher Librarians ...... 5 “FACILITIES” INSERT! · Provincially Developed Documents on Special pull-out section. School Library Resource Centres ...... 6 · New Professional Resources...... 6 - 1999 - · New Reference Sources ...... 8-9 Volume 19, Number 3 · Award Winning Books...... 10-15

Editors Lillian Carefoot · Horn Book Honor List...... 16 Principal, Waterloo Elementary School School District #68, Box 190, · 3519 Hallberg Rd., Cassidy, BC V0R 1H0 Top 10 Fantasy Novels for Youth ...... 17 (250) 245-7612 Fax: (250) 245-7612 Email: [email protected] · Top 10 SciFi/Fantasy Novels for Youth...... 17 John Caldwell District Teacher Librarian · Regional Canadian Picture Books ...... 17 District Resource Centre, School Services S.J. Willis Centre, 923 Topaz Ave. · Victoria, BC V8T 2M2 The Best in Canadian Resources ...... 18-19 (250) 360-4302 Fax: (250) 360-4308 Email: [email protected] · Canadian History List ...... 20-21 Managing Editor Don Hamilton · 40 Great Works of Canadian Fiction...... 21 Education Librarian & Adjunct Professor University of Victoria, BC Email: [email protected] · Non-Book Awards...... 23-24 CSLA President Ray Doiron · National Film Board Videos - Canadian Best Sellers ....24 Faculty of Education, University of PEI Email: [email protected] · KLIATT Editor’s Choice Audiobooks ...... 25 Advertising Rand Spencer Brand Advertising · 1-888-316-8305 Audiobook Producers & Distributors ...... 26 Email: [email protected] · International Conference on Thinking Bibliography .....27 Prepress Production Pia Graphics, Nanaimo, BC (250) 741-0206 · Websites of Interest to Teacher Librarians ...... 28 Printing Performance Printing, Smiths Falls, ON Subscriptions SLIC Subscriptions · My Best Websites for Teacher Librarians ...... 29 Canadian Library Association, 200 Elgin Street Suite 602, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L5 · Search Engines ...... 29 Subscription price for personal, institutional and associate members of CSLA is $25 annually. · Non-members pay $35 annually in Canada and Book Related Websites...... 30 $35 US outside of Canada. Changes of address should be given (at least one month in advance) · Nine Websites for Canadian History...... 30 to the above address. Back issues are available at $10 per copy from the CLA Order Dept. Missing issues are free if claimed within six months. · Community Learning Network ...... 31 School Libraries in Canada (ISSN 0227-3780) is published four times · annually by the Canadian Library Association. Canadian School Library Wholesalers ...... 32 Publications Mail Registration No. 5859. · Sources for Buying Clipart & Stock Photos ...... 32 School Libraries in Canada is the journal of the Canadian School Library Association. It provides information about association activities and news of recent developments in the field of school librarianship. Authors’ opinions should be regarded as their own · Books on Bullies ...... 32 unless CSLA endorsement is noted. Editorial content, unless otherwise noted, is the responsibility of the editor of School Libraries in Canada and is not to be construed as · official CSLA/CLA policy. Acceptance of an advertisement does not imply endorsement Teaching and Learning with Technology...... 33 of the product by CSLA/CLA. Copyright© The Canadian Library Association. Signed articles may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the CLA. In · Copyright Information ...... 33 using other materials, please acknowledge the Canadian School Library Association and School Libraries in Canada. Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome. Submit articles to the any one of the editors. Send review copies of professional books for teacher/ · Cataloguing Resources ...... 34 librarians, library media coordinators and school library educators to the editors. In- dexed in Canadian Periodical Index, Canadian Education Index, Library Literature, · Canadian Magazine Index, Contents Pages in Education, Library & Information Sci- School Library Manifesto ...... 34 ence Abstracts and Children’s Literature Abstracts. Also available in microfiche from Micromedia Ltd. · The Role of District Resource Centres ...... 35 · IFLA Statement ...... 35

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2 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Canadian Teacher Librarian Associations Canadian School Library Association Board of Directors 1999-2000 PRESIDENT Ray Doiron COUNCILLORS EDITORS, School Libraries in Canada Faculty of Education, Univ. of PEI Judith Dueck, Teacher-Librarian Lillian Carefoot, Principal 550 University Ave., Gordon Bell High School Waterloo Elementary School Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3 3 Borrowman Pl., Winnipeg, MB R3G 1M6 Box 190, 3519 Hallberg Rd., (902) 566-0684 Fax: (902) 566-0416 (204) 774-5401 Fax: (204) 783-9469 Cassidy, BC V0R 1H0 Email: [email protected] Website: Email: [email protected] (250) 245-7612 Fax: (250) 245-4411 www.upei.ca/~fac_ed/faculty/Ray/ Email: [email protected] index.htm Holly Gunn, Teacher-Librarian Sackville High School, 1 Kingfisher Way, John Caldwell PAST PRESIDENT Lower Sackville, NS B4C 2Y9 District Teacher-Librarian, SD61 (Greater (902) 864-6715 Fax: (902) 864-6710 Anne M. Galler Victoria), District Resource Centre, Email: [email protected] Rm.583, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. S.J. Willis Centre, 923 Topaz Ave., Website: www.accesswave.ca/~hgunn Montreal, QC, H4G 1M8 Victoria, BC V8T 2M2 (514) 848-2543 Fax: (514) 848-4520 (250) 360-4302 Fax: (250) 360-4308 Email: [email protected] WEBSITE COORDINATOR Email: [email protected] www.geocities.com/~abrown/csla.htm VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT Alan Brown, Teacher-Librarian Donald Hamilton & POSTER COORDINATOR Havenwood Public School (Managing) Education Librarian Karin Paul, Teacher-Librarian 3255 Havenwood Dr., Univ. of Victoria St. Andrew’s High School Mississauga, ON L4X 2M2 P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 880 McKenzie Ave., Victoria, BC V8X (905) 625-3220 Fax: (905) 625-9503 (250)721-7899 Fax: (250) 721-7767 3G5 (250) 479-1414 Fax: (250) 479- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 5356 Website: www.alanbrown.com Email: [email protected] CSLA HOME PAGE 1999 CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Teddy Moline SECRETARY-TREASURER www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1333/ csla.htm Supervisor, Learning Resources Rev. Brian Rountree, Rector SLIC HOME PAGE Elk Island Public Schools PO Box 670, Pine Falls, MB R0E 1M0 Sherwood Park AB uviclib.uvic.ca/csla/slic.html (204) 367-8615 Tel/Fax: (204) 367-8347 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Association for Teacher Librarianship in Canada Board of Directors 1999-2000 PRESIDENT DIRECTORS WEBMASTER Judith Sykes Judy Davies (Literacy, national survey) Jim Holgate 56 Sundown Green S.E., Millery Farm, Flat River, RR#3, #704 - 950 Jervis St., Vancouver, Calgary, AB T2X 2Y2 Belle River, PEI C0A 1B0 BC V6E 2B4 Res: (604) 669-8919 Res: (403) 256-5394 Bus: (403) 777-8110 Res: (902) 659-2369 Bus: (902) 368-4633 Bus: (604) 588-3415 Fax: (604) 588-7122 Fax: (403) 777-8113 Fax: (902) 368-4622 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR PAST PRESIDENT Brenda Power (Membership) Vicki Pennell Pat Taylor 43 Chanterelle Dr., Box 1340, PO Box 9, Pouch Cove, NF A0A 3L0 405 - 3rd Ave. S., Saskatoon, SK S7K 1M7 Chamberlains, NF A1W 1E5 Res: (709) 335-2978 Fax: (709) 335-2978 Res: (306) 934-4617 Bus: (306) 683-8317 Res: (709) 834-4393 Bus: (709) 781-1440 Email: [email protected] Fax: (306) 683-8207 Fax: (709) 781-1444 SENIOR EDITOR, IMPACT Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Nigel Pottle SECRETARY Gloria Hersak (Liaison) 527-25 Ave. NE., Calgary, AB T2E 1Y6 Anne Letain c/o Winnipeg School Div.1, Library Media Res: (403) 276-9758 Bus: (403) 777-7608 251 Fairway Drive Coaldale, AB T1M 1H3 Services, Prince Charles Educ. Resource Ctr. Email: [email protected] Res: (403) 345-4479 Bus: (403) 223-3352 1075 Wellington Ave., EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Fax: (403) 223-3855 Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J7 Liz Bream Email: [email protected] (204) 788-0203 Fax: (204) 772-3911 402-1875 Bellevue Ave., TREASURER Email: [email protected] W. Vancouver, BC V7V 1B3 Susan Leppington Joan Suchotzky Res: (604) 926-5411 7 Ironshield Cres., Thornhill, ON L3T 3K7 67 Rich Close, Red Deer, AB T4P 3P1 Email: [email protected] Res: (905) 882-5015 Bus: (416) 969-7170 Email: [email protected] ATLC HOME PAGE (ext.2411) Email: [email protected] www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/~atlc/home.htm#top

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 3 Presidents: Provincial & Territorial Teacher Librarian Assns. BRITISH COLUMBIA QUEBEC JOIN British Columbia Teacher- Assoc. du personnel des the Associations! Librarians’ Assn. services documentaires Take up a membership in one BCTLA, a specialist organization of the BC scolaires or several associations that Teachers’ Federation. 127, rue Pilon, St-Eustache, Mark Roberts Québec J7P 2JS (514) 472-0657 represent you and your future. School: (604) 874-1161 Télécopieur: (514) 472-0657 International School Library Fax: (604) 873-4630 Assn . Email:[email protected] NEW BRUNSWICK Personal membership is open to all people who are interested in the development of school li- There is no longer an official school braries and school library media programmes. ALBERTA library association in N.B. Fees: US$50 Suite 300, Box 34069, Seattle, Alberta Learning Resources WA 98124-1069, USA Council NEWFOUNDLAND Fax: (604) 925-0566 Newfoundland & Labrador Email: [email protected] Grace McDougall Website: www.hi.is/~anne/joiniasl.html Medicine Hat, AB Teachers’ Assn. Learning School: 403-527-3730 Fax: 403-526-3842 Resources Council American Library Assn. & AASL Email: [email protected] Katherine Rowsell Basic Dues are US $60 for International Librar- ians. Librarians who do not hold U.S. citizen- PO Box 2202, RR1, ship and who are not employed in the U.S. or SASKATCHEWAN Corner Brook, NF A2H 2N2 U.S. Possessions, regardless of All ALA personal (709) 634-8936 (H) members are eligible for membership in any di- Saskatchewan School Library or (709) 634-5828 (W) vision. Division Membership dues are addi- Assoc. Fax: (709) 634-4762 tional to ALA dues. Colette Fisher Email: [email protected] These are the separate associations within Box 103 Kenosee CRT, ALA that relate to Teacher-Librarians: American Assoc. of School Librarians -US$40 Saskatoon, SK S7J 3S7 NOVA SCOTIA Assoc. for Library Service to Children -US$45 Email: [email protected] Nova Scotia School Library Young Adult Library Services Assoc. -US$40 ALA Membership Services Assn. 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 MANITOBA Gene-Marie MacDonald (312) 944-6780, 800-545-2433; Manitoba School Library C.P. Allen High School, Fax: (312) 944-2641 Halifax Regional School Board Email: [email protected] Assn. Email: [email protected] 715 Cathcart Ave., Canadian Library Assn. & Winnipeg, MB, R3R 3M7 Canadian School Library Assn. (204) 831-7099 Fax: (204) 832-5754 PRINCE EDWARD CSLA Associate Memberships are only open to Email: [email protected] those members of the school library commu- ISLAND nity, who are members of both a provincial Prince Edward Island Teacher school library association AND a professional ONTARIO organization affiliated with the Canadian Librarians’ Assn. Teachers’ Federation or other professional groups Ontario School Library Assn. Connie Fitzpatrick as approved by CLA. CSLA Associate members Jo-Anne Laforty Prince Street Elementary School enjoy a number of membership benefits. The fee Durham Board of Education 60 Upper Prince St., at present is $60 per year plus an additional O’Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4S3 charge for School Libraries in Canada. 102 William Stephenson Dr., (902) 368-6957 Fax: (902) 368-6959 Canadian Library Association 200 Elgin Street, Suite 602 Whitby, ON L1N 8T1 Email: [email protected] School: (905) 728-7531 Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1L5 Fax: (905) 728-2425 Website: www.cla.amlibs.ca/cslaform.htm Email: [email protected] YUKON Assn. for Teacher-Librarianship Yukon Education in Canada Yukon does not have a formal associa- Membership cost is $40 in Canada. Student and tion for teacher-librarians. The Yukon De- Retired Memberships: $20 within Canada. GST partment of Education maintains contact exempt. 43 Chanterelle Drive, Box 1340 with school libraries through a Resources Chamberlains, NF A1W 1E5 Services Teacher-Librarian. Website: www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/ Email: [email protected] ~atlc/home.htm#top

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AAAS Science Books & Films Canadian Materials - Reviews of Resource Links: Connecting American Assn. for the Advancement of Science Canadian Books Classrooms, Libraries & Canadian 1333 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA. www.umanitoba.ca/cm Learning (Publication of the ATLC) Chickona Royster (202) 326-6454 P.O. Box 9, Pouch Cove, NF A0A 3L0 Email: [email protected] US$40 CMC News: Computers & the (709) 335-2394 Fax: (709) 335-2394 Media Center Adbusters: Journal of Mental www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/atlc/reslinks.htm 515 Oak St. N., Cannon Falls, MN 55009 USA 5 per annum. $39 (ATLC members $29.95) Environment Quarterly. US$14. (507) 263-3711 The Media Foundation, 1243 W. 7th Ave., Email: [email protected] School Librarian Vancouver, BC V6H 1B7 The School Library Association, United Kingdom. (604) 736-9401 Fax: (604) 737-6021. Computers in Libraries: Complete The journal offers an excellent portrait of school Email: [email protected] Coverage of Library Information libraries and teacher-librarianship in Britain along Website: www.adbusters.org Technology with an excellent reviews section. Appraisal: Science books for Today Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ SLA, Liden Library, Barrington Close, Linden, Swindon, SN3 5HF Email: [email protected] Young People 08055-8750 USA. (609) 654-6266 Fax: (609) 654-4309. Email: [email protected] 4 per annum. £30. Presents reviews on science books presented by both Website: www.infotoday.com scientist or expert and a librarian. Orders to: School Libraries in Canada 10 per annum. US$99.95 Appraisal/Northwestern University, 403 Richards Publication of the Canadian School Library Assn. Hall, Boston, MA 02115. US$29.95 Emergency Librarian 200 Elgin St., Ste.602, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L5 4 per annum. $25 members; $35 nonmembers. Big 6 Newsletter: Teaching (see Teacher Librarian) Technology & Information Skills Feliciter School Library Journal Linworth Publishing Inc. Publication of the Canadian Library Assn. 1-800-456-9409 Fax: (303) 604-1464 480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., Ste. L, Ottawa, ON (613) 232-9625, Ext.321 P.O. Box 57559, Boulder, CO 80322-7559 Worthington, OH 43085-2372 USA Fax: (613) 563-9895 Website: www.slj.com (614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490 10 per annum. Fee: CLA membership. ISSN 0362-8930. 12 per annum. US$120. Email: [email protected] · www.linworth.com From Now On School Library Media Quarterly 6 per annum. US$55. A free electronic journal produced by Jamie Publication of the Amercian Assn. of School Book Links - Connecting Books, MacKenzie in Bellingham, WA. Subscribe to the Librarians. Only available online. Libraries & Classrooms journal so that it is automatically sent to your www.ala.org/aasl/SLMQ 434 W. Downer, Aurora, IL 60506 USA email: http://fromnowon.org/JM/subscribe.html School Library Media Activities Website: http://fromnowon.org 6 per annum. US$24.95. www.ala.org/BookLinks Monthly Book Report: The Journal for Junior Horn Book: About Books for 17 E. Henrietta St., Baltimore, & Senior High School Librarians Children & Young Adults MD 21230-3910 (410) 685-8621 11 Beacon St., Ste. 1000, Boston, MA 2108 ISSN 0889-9371. 11 per annum. US$54. (incorporating Technology Connection) 1-800-325-1170. ISSN 0018-5078 This title has been radically redesigned and now School Library Media Quarterly Email: [email protected] incorporates TC. Linworth Publishing, www.ala.org/aasl/SLMQ Website: www.hbook.com. 6 Per annum. US$50. 480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., Ste. L, Teacher-Librarian Worthington, OH 43085-2372 USA Impact (614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490 (Association for Teacher-Librarianship in Canada) (formerly Emergency Librarian) Email: [email protected] · www.linworth.com Membership newsletter. 101-1001 W. Broadway, Ste.343, Vancouver, Bookbird. Vienna. 5 per annum. US$44. BC V6H 4E4. Email: [email protected] KLIATT Reviews of Selected Books, 5 issues. $45.00 plus 7% GST Bookbird Educational Software & Audiobooks Vienna. International Board on Books for Young Teacher-Librarian Today 33 Bay Street Rd., Wellesley, MA 2481 Edmonton, AB: Alberta Teachers Assn. c1995 People. International Institute for Children’s, (781) 237-7577 6 per annum. US$41. Juvenile and Popular Literature. US$55. Technology Connection: The Knowledge Quest: Journal of the Booklist (ALA Publication) Magazine for School Media & American Assn. of School Librarians 434 W. Downer, Aurora, IL 60506 USA Technology (630) 892-7465 Website: www.ala.org/booklist Chicago, IL: American Library Assn., c1997. 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 USA Linworth Publishing Inc. Twice monthly. US$80 Website: www.ala.org/aasl. 5 per annum. US$40. 480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., Ste. L, Bookmark, The Worthington, OH 43085-2372 USA Library Talk: The Magazine for (BC Teacher-Librarians Assn.) (614) 436-7107 Fax: (614) 436-9490 Elementary School Librarians Email: [email protected] · www.linworth.com BCTF, 100-550 W. 6th Ave., Vancouver, BC Linworth Publishing, 480 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., V5Z 4P2. (604) 871-2283. www.bctf.bc.ca Ste. L, Worthington, OH 43085-2372 Technos: Quarterly for Education & 4 issues per year. $61.26 Bimonthly. US$60. Technology Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Technos Press, Bloomington, IN Quill & Quire: Canada’s Magazine Books (812) 339-2203 Ext.219 Fax: (812) 333-4218 of Book News and Reviews 4 per annum. US$32. 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School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 5 Provincially Developed New Professional Resources Documents on School Library for Teacher Librarians A to Zoo New Steps to Service: Resource Centres Subject access to children’s picture books. Commonsense Advice for the Alberta 5th ed. Bowker:1998. 0-8352-3916-0. School Library Media Best Books for Children Specialist. Ann. M. Wasman. ALA:1998. 0- Focus on Learning: An Integrated Program PS-6. 6th ed. Bowker:1998. 0-8352-4099-1. 8389-3483-8. Model for Alberta School Libraries Bowker’s Directory of Partners in Learning: Students, Alberta Education, 1985. Audiocassettes for Children Teachers & the School Library Focus on Research: A Guide to Developing New ed. Bowker:1999. 0-8352-4200-5. Ray Doiron & Judy Davies. Libraries Unlim- Student’s Research Skills Bowker’s Directory of ited/Teacher Ideas Press, 1998. Alberta Education, 1990. Videocassettes for Children Power tools 100+: Essential Forms British Columbia New edition. 1999. 0-8352-4201-3. and Presentations for Your School Developing Independent Learners: The Role The Busy Educator’s Guide to the Library of the School Library Resource Centre World Wide Web Information Program. ALA: 1997. 0-8389- BC Ministry of Education, 1991. Marjan Glavac. NIMA Systems. 1998. 0717-2 Manitoba CD-ROMs for Kids: Prentice Hall Directory of Online Resource-Based Learning: An Educational Booklist’s Best Bets Education Resources Model Edited by Irene Wood. Booklist Publica- Vicki Smith & George D. Bigham. Prentice- Manitoba Education & Training, 1994. tions:1997. 0-8389-7838-X. Hall:1998. 0-13-618588-6. New Brunswick Children’s Books in Print Reluctant Readers: Connecting New ed. Bowker:1999. 0-8352-4077-0. Students for Successful Reading Standards & Practices for New Brunswick Connecting Young Adults Experiences School Libraries & Libraries Ron Jobe & Mary Dayton-Sakari. Pembroke. New Brunswick Teachers Association 2nd edition. Patrick Jones. Neal-Schuman: 1999. 1-55138-106-0. Library Council, 1989. 1998. 1-555570-315-1. Searching Smart on the World Wide Newfoundland & Labrador Curriculum Connections: Picture Web: Tools & Techniques for Getting Learning to Learn: Policies & Guidelines for Books in Grade 3 and Up Quality Results the Implementation of Resource-Based Carol Otis Hurst et al. Linworth:1999. (Includes disk with Netscape bookmarks and Learning in Newfoundland & Labrador 0-938865-70-6. Internet Explorer Favourites). Library Solutions: Schools Developing an Information Literacy 1998. 1-882208-28-5. Newfoundland & Labrador Departments of Program K-12: A How-To-Do-It Senior High School Library Catalog Education. 1991. Manual and CD-ROM Package 15th Ed. H. W. Wilson:1997. 0-8242- Northwest Territories Edited by Mary Jo Langhorne and the Iowa 0921-4. Guidelines for the Development of School City Community School District. Neal- Storytelling Art & Techniques Information Centres Schuman:1998. 1-55570-332-1. 3rd ed. Ellin Greene. Bowker: 1996. 0-8352- Northwest Territories Education, 1990 The Educator’s Writing Handbook 3458-4. Nova Scotia Diana Reep & Helen M. Sharp. Allyn and Subject Guide to Children’s Books Bacon:1999. 0-205-28519-8. In Print Nova Scotia School Libraries: Standards and Evaluating the School Library Me- New ed. Bowker:1999. 0-8352-4080-8 Practices dia Center Teaching Information & Technology Nova Scotia Teachers Union, 1987. Nancy Everhart. Libraries Unlimited:1998. Skills: The Big6 in Elementary Ontario 1-56308-085-0. Schools Partners in Action: The Library Resource Folktale Themes & Activities for Michael B. Eisenbert & Robert E. Berkowitz. Centre in the School Curriculum Children Linworth Pub. 1999. 0-938865-81-1. Ontario Ministry of Education, 1982 Vol.1: Pourquoi Tales. Anne Marie Kraus. Technology Across the Curriculum: Information Literacy and Equitable Access: Teacher Ideas Press:1998. 1-56308-521-6. Activities & Ideas A Framework for Change The Indispensible Teacher’s Guide Marilyn Bazeli & James Heintz. Libraries Ontario Ministry of Education, 1995. to Computer Skills Unlimited:1997. 1-56308-0-444-9. Prince Edward Island Doug Johnson. Linworth:1998. 0-938865-2. Virtual Field Trips School Library Policy for the Province of Junior Genreflecting: A Guide to Gail Cooper & Garry Cooper. Libraries Prince Edward Island Good Reads & Series Fiction for Unlimited:1997. 1-56308-557-7. PEI Dept. of Education, 1989. Children Quebec Bridget Dealy Volz et al. Libraries Unlim- ited:1999. 1-56308-556-9. Direction Generale de Evaluation es des Local Area Networking for the England’s First-ever Resources Didactiques Library Resources in the Schools: Small Library Norman Howden. Neal-Schuman:1997. 1- Children’s Laureate Pedagogical & Organizational Aspects 55570-285-6. ON MAY 10, QUENTIN BLAKE BECAME (English translation) Britain’s first-ever children’s laureate for a Quebec Ministere de l’Education, 1987. More Books Kids Will Sit Still For. A Read-Aloud Guide two-year term. Blake, whose watercolours Saskatchewan Judy Freeman. Bowker:1995. 0-8352-3520- have appeared in more than 200 books (in- Resource-Based Learning: Policies, Guide- 3. (Was out of print now is back in print). cluding 16 of his own), is best known in lines and Responsibilities for Saskatchewan The New Improved Big6 Workshop North America for his work on Roald Learning Resource Centres Handbook Dahl’s books, especially The BFG (Farrar, Saskatchewan Education, 1988. Michael B. Eisenberg & Robert E. Berkowitz. 1982). Linworth Pub.1999. 0-938865-87-0.

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School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 7 New Reference Sources Books Earth Sciences for Students (4 vol.) Kingfisher Book of Religions: Edited by Dasch, E. Julius. Gr. 7 up. Festivals, Ceremonies, and Beliefs Abbreviations Dictionary: Macmillan:1999. 0-02-865308-4. from Around the World A Practical Compilation of Today’s Encarta World English Dictionary Barnes, Trevor. Gr. 4 up. Larousse:1999. Acronyms and Abbreviations Soukarrov, Anne. St. Martin’s:1999. 0-7534-5199-9. Wachal, Robert. Houghton Mifflin:1999. 0-312-22222-X Kingfisher First Human Body 0-395-92691-2. Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities Encyclopedia The Age of Dinosaurs Coulter, Charles Russell & Turner, Patricia. Walker, Richard. Gr. K-up. Larousse:1999. Grolier:1999. 0-7172-9406-4. McFarland:1999. 0-7864-0317-9. 0-7534-5177-8. Ancient Civilizations Reference Encyclopedia of Environmental Kingfisher Young People’s Book of Library (5 vol.) Issues Planet Earth Gr. 5 up. UXL:1999. 0-7876-3981-8. Edited by Allin, Craig. Gr. 6 up. Salen:1999. Redfern, Martin. Larousse:1999. Animals: A Macmillan Illustrated 0-89356-994-1. 0-7534-5180-8. Encyclopedia (3 vol.) Encyclopedia of Human Emotions Let’s Celebrate Today: Calendars, Gr. 4 up. Macmillan:1999. 0-02-865420-X. (2 vol.) Edited by Levinson, David et al. Events and Holidays Atlas of the World (6th ed.) Macmillan:1999. 0-02-864766-1. Marks, Diana F. Gr. K-12. Libraries Unlim- Oxford. 1998. Booklist “Best”. Encyclopedia of Technology and ited:1998. 1-56308-558-5. 0-1952-1464-1. Applied Sciences Macmillan Centennial Atlas Atlas of the Prehistoric World Edited by Oppenheimer, Andy. Marshall of the World Palmer, Douglas. Discovery Books:1999. Cavendish:Jan.2000. 0-7614-7116-2. Macmillan. 1996. Booklist “Best”. 1-56331-829-6. Experiment Central: Understanding 0-02-861264-7. Atlas of the World’s Religions Scientific Principles Through Macmillan Centennial Atlas of Edited by Smart, Ninian. Oxford:1999. Projects (4 vol.) the World (Rev. ed.) 0-19-521449-8. UXL:1999. 0-7876-2892-1. Gr. 5 up. Macmillan:1999. 0-02-865370-X. Baker Student Encyclopedia First Dictionary Medieval England: An Encyclopedia of Music (3 vol.) Scholastic: 1998. 224 pp. 0-590-96786-X. Edited by Szarmach, Paul et al. Garland: Edited by Kuhn, Laura. Gr. 7 up. Schirmer: Gr. 1-3. 1998. 0-8240-5786-4. 1999. 0-02-865315-7. Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Millenium World Atlas Book of the World Customs, Tales, Music and Art Rand McNally:1999. 0-528-84175-0. Macmillan. 1999. 0-02-865368-8. Edited by Green, Thomas. ABC-CLIO:1997. Myths and Legends. Macmillan Cambridge Dictionary of American 0-87436-986-X. Profiles Series English For Appearances’ Sake: Historical Gr. 9 up. Macmillan:1999. 0-02-865376-9. Edited by Landau, Sidney. Cambridge:1999. Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, National Geographic World Atlas 0-521-47761-1 (paper), 0-521-77974-X. and Grooming (2nd ed.) For Young Explorers (Paper and CD-ROM.) Sherrow, Victoria. Oryx:1999. Gr. 2-6. 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Scholastic Encyclopedia of Space Online Mitton, Jacqueline & Mitton, Simon. Gr. 4 3D Atlas Online up. Scholastic:1999. 0-590-59227-0. www.3datlas.com/ CanLit for Kids Times Atlas of the World (10th ed.) Visit 3D Atlas Topics for links to Human Times Books:1999. 0-8129-3265-X. Impact (how we affect the earth), Natural Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by World, and Cultural World (how others live b/w the Decades: a Reference Guide on earth). Click on Countries of the World Rollin, Lucy. Gr. 9 up. Greenwood:1999. for and A-to-Z list of maps, flags, and RH page information. What is a Cirque? Look it up in 0-313-30223-5. the Geographic Glossary. outside column Webster’s New World Book of Facts Encarta Online Deluxe Macmillan:1999. 0-02-863485-3. www.encarta.msn.com Webster’s New World Children’s Gr. 3 up. 1998. Combination encyclopedia and Dictionary (2nd ed.) Internet connectivity tool. By subscription. Macmillan:1999. 0-02-862766-0. Encyclopedia Britannica Webster’s New World College Now free on the Internet Dictionary (4th ed.) www.britannica.com Macmillan:1999. 0-02-863471-3. New Book of Knowledge Online Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and go.grolier.com Gr. 3 up. Grolier Educational. Nutrition: How to Buy, Store and Online encyclopedia. Prepare Every Variety of Fresh Food Margen, Sheldon. Times:1999. 0-929661- 50-8. World Almanac For Kids 2000 Edited by Israel, Elaine. World Almanac: 1999. 0-88687-840-3. World Almanac 2000 Edited by Famighetti, Robert. World Almanac:1999. 0-88687-848-0. World Atlas of the Past Haywood, John. Oxford:1999. 0-19-521443-9. Your World: A First Encyclopedia Wilkes, Angela. Larousse:1999. 0-7534- 5217-0. The World in So Many Words: a Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language Metcalf, Allan. Houghton Mifflin:1999. 0-395-95920-9. Worldmark Chronologies: v.1. Africa; v.2. Americas; v.3. Asia; v.4. Europe Edited by Dickey, Shelley. Gr. 9 up. Don Smith Agency Gale:1999. 0-7876-0521-1. b/w CD-ROM Children’s Books in Print on Disc (4-3/8” x 6-5/8”) Gr. 3 up. Bowker:1999. Grolier Multimedia Reference Suite:1999. Includes: Hammond Atlas of the World 1998 Wall Street Journal Almanac Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe Microsoft. 1998. 1-5723-1777-9. Random House Webster’s Una- bridged Dictionary (Ver. 3) Random: 1999. 0-375-40391-4. Rand Mcnally’s New Millennium World Atlas Delux Rand McNally. 1998. 0-5285-2054-7. Webster’s New World Children’s Dictionary with CD-ROM (2nd ed.) Macmillan: 1999. 0-02-863125-0. Webster’s New World College Dictionary with CD-ROM (4th ed.) Macmillan: 1999. 0-02-863121-8.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 9 Award Winning Books

Deem, James Abby Award 1999 Assn. for Library Service to Bodies from the Bog. Houghton:1998. American Booksellers Assn. Children’s Div. Children (ALSC) 0-395-85784-8. Rowling, J.K. Enzensberger, Hans Notable Books 1999 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adven- Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 1998. Picture Books ture. Holt/Metropolitan:1998. 0-8050- Alda, Arlene 5770-6. Aesop Prize 1998 Arlene Alda’s 123: What Do You See? Fleishman, Sid Tricycle: 1998. 1-883672-71-6. Bandit’s Moon. Greenwillow:1998. 0-688- Outstanding children’s book which Babbitt, Natalie 15830-7. incorporates folklore. Ouch! A Tale from Grimm. HarperCollins/ Gantos, Jack Chief Lelooska Michael Di Capua Bks: 1998. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Farrar:1998. Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paint- 0-06-205066-4. 0-374-33664-4. ings of Chief Lelooska. DK: 1997. Banks, Kate Gerstein, Mordecai And If the Moon Could Talk. Farrar/Frances The Wild Boy. Farrar/Frances Foster Alex Awards 1999 Foster Bks: 1998. 0-374-30299-5. Bks:1998. 0-374-38431-2. Feiffer, Jules Gollub, Matthew Honour the top ten adult books for teenagers. I Lost My Bear. Morrow: 1998. Cool Melons-Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Alexander, Caroline 0-688-15147-7. Poems of Issa. Lee & Low:1998. 1-880000-71-7. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Fleming, Denise Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra Antarctic Expedition. Nonfiction. Knopf: Mama Cat has Three Kittens. Holt: 1998. Chuck Close, Up Close. DK Ink: 1998. 1998. 0-375-40403-1. 0-8050-5745-5. 0-7894-2486-x. Boylan, James Finney Heap, Sue McCully, Emily Getting In. Fiction. Warner: 1998. 0-446- Cowboy Baby. Candlewick: 1998. Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun’s 67417-6. 0-7636-0437-2. Kung Fu. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine: 1998. Dominick, Andie Hurd, Thacher 0-590-37487-7. Needles. Diabetes. Scribner: 1998. 0-684- Zoom City. HarperFestival: 1998. 0-694- Marcus, Leonard 84232-7. 01057-X. A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists Share Gilstrap, John Krensky, Stephen Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal. Walker: At All Costs. Fiction. Warner: 1998. 0-446- How Santa Got His Job. Simon & Schuster: 1998. 0-8027-8656-1. 52315-1. 1998. 0-689-80697-3. Martin, Jacqueline Kercheval, Jesse Lee Kvasnosky, Laura McGee Snowflake. Bentley Houghton:1998. 0-395- Space. Memoir. Algonquin: 1998. 1-56512- Zelda and Ivy. Candlewick:1998. 0-7636- 86162-4. 146-5. 0469-0. Morgenstern, Susie Kluger, Steve Rathmann, Peggy Secret Letters from 1 to 10. Viking:1998. Last Days of Summer. Fiction. Avon/Bard: 10 Minutes till Bedtime. Putnam:1998. 0-670-88007-8. 1998. 0-380-97645-5. 0-399-23103-x. Pinkney, Andrea Robinson, Kim Stanley San Souci, Robert Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Or- Antarctica. Fiction. Bantam: 1998. 0-553- Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella. Simon chestra. Hyperion:1998. 0-7868-0178-6. 10063-7. & Schuster:1998. 0-689-80668-x. Poole, Josephine Santiago, Esmeralda Shannon, David Joan of Arc. Knopf/Borzoi:1998. 0-679- Almost a Woman. Fiction. Perseus/Merloyd No, David!. Scholastic/Blue Sky:1998. 99041-0. Lawrence. 0-7382-0043-3. 0-590-93002-8. Rowling, J. K. Senna, Danzy Shulevitz, Uri Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scho- Caucasia. Fiction. Putnam/Riverhead. Snow. Farrar:1998. 0-374-37092-3. lastic/ Arthur A. Levine Bks:1998. 1-57322-091-4. Sis, Peter Sachar, Louis Silverberg, Robert (editor) Fire Truck. Greenwillow:1998. Holes. Farrar/Frances Foster Bks:1998. Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern 0-688-15878-1. Santiago, Chiori Fantasy. Fiction. St. Martin’s Press: 1998. Stanley, Diane Home to Medicine Mountain. Children’s 0-312-86787-5. Joan of Arc. Morrow:1998. 0-688-14329-6. Book Press:1998. Steig, William Schwartz, David Ann Connor Brimer Award Pete’s Pizza. HarperCollins:1998. G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book. 0-06-20515-1. Tricycle:1998. Atlantic Canadian writers who have made a notable contribution to children’s literature. Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie Walter, Virginia Major, Kevin Elizabeth’s Doll. Lee & Low:1998. Making Up Megaboy. DK Ink/A Richard 1-880000-70-9. Jackson Bk:1998. The House of Wooden Santas. Thomas, Joyce Wolff, Virginia Euwer Other Nominees I Have Heard of a Land. HarperCollins:1998. Bat 6. Scholastic: 1998. Aker, Don 0-06-023477-6. Older Readers Stranger at Bay. Winter, Jeanette Abelove, Joan Hickman, Pamela My Name is Georgina: A Portrait. Harcourt/ Go and Come Back. DK Ink/A Richard Animal Senses. Silver Whistle:1998. 0-15-201649-x. Jackson Bk:1998. Wilson, Budge Middle Readers Sharla. Armstrong, Jennifer Carlson, Laurie Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Won the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and West. DK Ink. A Melanie Kroupa Bk:1998. the Endurance. Crown:1998. 0-7894-2479-7.

10 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Award Winning Books

Bauer, Joan Claudia Lewis Award for Canadian Library Rules of the Road. Putnam:1998. Poetry Association Awards Blackwood, Gary Clinton, Catherine The Shakespeare Stealer. Dutton:1998. 1998 Amelia Frances Howard- I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of Freedman, Russell Gibbon Illustrator’s Medal Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life. African American Poetry. Houghton, 1998. Flora Steiglitz Straus Award Denton, Kady Macdonald Clarion:1998. A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. Griffin, Adele Kuklin, Susan 1997 Winner: Reid, Barbara. The Party. The Other Shepards. Hyperion:1998. Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child 1997 Runner-up: Miletti, Pascal. Rain- Holt, Kimberley Slavery. Holt. 1998. bow Bay. Raincoast. My Louisiana Sky. Holt:1998. Lobel, Anita Other titles under consideration 1997: No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War. Bill Martin Jr. Picture Bouchard, David Greenwillow:1998. Book Award The Great Race. Raincoast. McCaughrean, Geraldine Carney, Margaret The Pirate’s Son. Scholastic:1998. Outstanding authors and illustrators. At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush. Kids Can Press. McKee, Tim Brett, Jan Crook, Connie No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from The Hat. Putnam. Maple Moon. Stoddart Kids. a New South Africa. DK Ink/ Melanie Kroupa Jam, Teddy Bk:1998. 1998 Boston Globe-Horn The Fishing Summer. Groundwood Books. Murphy, Jim Lawson, Julie Gon a-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Emma and the Silk Train. Kids Can Press. Book Award Marton, Jirina Hunt for the Great Whale. Clarion:1998. For excellence in children’s literature. Partridge, Elizabeth Lady Kaguya’s Secret. Annick. The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. Fiction Waboose, Jan Bourdeau Viking:1998. Jimenez, Francisco Morning on the Lake. Kids Can Press. Peck, Richard The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Wallace, Ian A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Child. Univ. of New Mexico Press. 1997. A Winter’s Tale. Groundwood Books. Stories. Dial:1998. NonFiction 1998 Young Adult Book Award Rabinovici, Schoschana Tillage, Leon Walter Friesen, Gayle Thanks to My Mother. Dial:1998. Leon’s Story. Illustrated by Susan L. Roth. Janey’s Girl. Kids Can Press. All Ages 1997 Winner: Brooks, Martha Picture Book Bone Dance. Groundwood Books. Browne, Anthony Hallensleben, Georg, illustrator. Voices in the Park. DK Ink:1998. And If the Moon Could Talk. Written by Kate 1998 Book of the Year for Burleigh, Robert. Banks. Foster/Farrar. 1998. Children Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth. Harcourt/ Silver Whistle:1998. Wynne-Jones, Tim Florian, Douglas Stephen Fair. Groundwood Books. Caldecott Medal 1999 1997 Winner: Oppel, Kenneth Insectlopedia. Harcourt:1998. Azarian, Mary Guthrie, Woody Silverwing. Harper Collins. Snowflake Bentley. Written by Jacqueline Honour Books 1997: This Land is Your Land. Little, Brown:1998. Briggs Martin. Houghton. Igus, Toyomi McGregor, Roy See the Rhythm. Children’s Book Press:1998. Honour Books The Quebec City Crisis. McClelland & Sis, Peter Pinkney, Brian Stewart. Through the Red Box. Farrar/Frances Foster Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Or- Spalding, Andrea Bks:1998. chestra. Written by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Sarah May and the New Red Dress. Orca. Van Laan, Nancy Hyperion. Walters, Eric With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore Shannon, David War of the Eagles. Orca. from Way Down South. Simon & Schuster/ No David! Blue Sky/Scholastic. Withrow, Sarah Atheneum:1998. Shulevitz, Uri Bat Summer. Groundwood Books. Weitzman, Jacqueline Snow. Farrar. You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropoli- Sis, Peter tan Museum. Dial:1998. Tibet: Through the Red Box. Foster/Farrar. Carl Sandberg Literary Wick, Walter Award 1998 Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks. Scholastic/ California Book Award For excellence in children’s literature. Cartwheel:1998. Zelinsky, Paul O. 1998 Rapunzel. Dutton. 1997. Bankstreet College of Sans Souci, Robert The Hired Hand: An African-American Education Children’s Book Folktale. Dial. Carter G. Woodson Book Committee Award 1998 Children’s Book Winners 1998. Elementary Josette Frank Award for Fiction Tillage, Leon Walter Holt, Kimberly Willis Leon’s Story. Farrar. My Louisiana Sky. Holt. 1998. Secondary Meltzer, Milton Langston Hughes: An Illustrated Edition.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 11 Award Winning Books Honour Book: Non-Fiction Charlotte Zolotow Award Finkelstein, Norman H. Outstanding writing in a picture book. Elizabeth Burr Award With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Shulevitz, Uri 1998 Murrow. Clarion. Snow. Farrar. 1998. Henkes, Kevin Honour Book: Picture Book Text Honour Books: Bunting, Eve Sun & Spoon. Greenwillow. 1997. Meade, Holly December. Harcourt. John Wiley & Freddy McGee. Marshall Honour Book: Picture Book Illustration Cavendish:1998. Garden State Children’s Stevens, Janet Steig, William To Market, To Market. Harcourt. Pete’s a Pizza. HarperCollins:1998. Book Awards (New Jersey) Easy to Read Category Golden Sower Award Brown, Marc Christopher Award Nebraska Children’s Choice Award. Arthur’s Reading Race. Random. 1996. Creative works that express the highest Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds values of the human spirit. Younger Fiction Category Shiloh Season. Atheneum. 1996. Brisson, Pat Danziger, Paula Rossiter, Nan Parson The Summer My Father Was Ten. Illustrated Forever Amber. Putnam. 1996. Rugby and Rosie. Dutton, 1997. by Andrea Shine. Boyds Mills. Younger Non-Fiction Category Williams, Carol Lynch Hill, Donna Cole, Joanna The True Colours of Caitlynne Jackson. Shipwreck Season. Clarion. Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive. Delacorte. 1997. Nolan, Jerdine Scholastic. 1996. Raising Dragons. Illustrated by Elise Primavera. SilverWhistle/Harcourt. Governor General’s Sachar, Louis Geoffrey Bilson Award Literary Awards 1998 Holes. Foster/Farrar. For historical fiction for young people. English Language Children’s Wells, Rosemary Watts, Irene Mary on Horseback. Illustrated by Peter Good-bye Marianne. Literature - Text McCarty. Dial. Other Nominees: Lunn, Janet Campbell, Dayle The Hollow Tree. Knopf. Cordetta Scott King Living Freight. Other Nominees: Crook, Connie Brummel Johnston, Julie Awards 1999 Nellie’s Quest. The Only Outcast. Tundra. Author Award Freeman, Bill McNaughton, Janet Prairie Fire! Make or Break Spring. Tuckamore Books/ Johnson, Angela Hammond, Elzine Breault Creative Book Publishing. Heaven. Simon & Schuster. Beyond the Waterfall. Winthrow, Sarah Honour Books: Heneghan, James Bat Summer. Groundwood/Douglas & Grimes, Nikki Wish Me Luck. McIntyre. Jazmin’s Notebook. Dial. Matas, Carol English Language Children’s Hansen, Joyce & McGowan, Gary The Garden. Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story McNaughton, Janet Literature - Illustration of New York’s African Burial Ground. Holt. Make or Break Spring. Denton, Kady MacDonald Johnson, Angela Stewart, Sharon A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. Kids The Other Side: Shorter Poems. Orchard. The Dark Tower. Can Press. Illustrator Award Walters, Eric Other Nominees: Wood, Michelle War of the Eagles. Bosson, Victor I see the Rhythm. Written by Toyomi Igus. Wilson, John The Fox’s Kettle. Orca. Children’s Book Press. Across Frozen Snow. Chan, Harvey Honour Books: Music for the Tsar of the Sea. Groundwood/ Cooper, Fred Golden Kite Award 1998 Douglas & McIntyre. I Have Heard of a Land. Cotler/HarperCollins. Huang, Zhong-Yang Lewis, E.B. Fiction The Great Race. Raincoast Books. The Bat Boy and His Violin. Simon. Napoli, Donna Jo Jorisch, Stephanie Pinkney, Brian Stones in Water. Dutton. The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Or- Non-Fiction Stories. Annick. chestra. Walker. Schulzman, Arlene Carmine’s Story: A Book About a Boy Living International Reading Cordetta Scott King John with Aids. Lerner. Assn. Children’s Book Picture Book Text Steptoe Award 1999 Award 1999 Outstanding Book by a New Black Davol, Marguerite W. Author: The Paper Dragon. Atheneum. Informational Book Category Flake, Sharon Picture Book Illustration Dingle, Derek T. The Skin I’m In. Jump in the Sun/Hyperion. Sabuda, Robert First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson. Hyperion. Outstanding New Black Illustrator: The Paper Dragon. Atheneum. 1998 Winner: Velasquez, Eric Honour Book: Fiction Miller, Brandon Marie The Piano Man. Walker. Fleischman, Paul Seedfolks. HarperCollins. Just What the Doctor Ordered.

12 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Award Winning Books Newth, Mette Friesen, Gayle Jane Addams Children’s The Dark Light. Fiction. Farrar.1998. Gr.7 up. Janey’s Girl. Kids Can Press. Nomura, Takaaki Holeman, Linda Book Award 1998 Grandpa’s Town. Fiction. Kane/Miller. 1991. Mercy is Birds. Tundra Books. For outstanding children’s books that PS-gr.3. McClintock, Norah promote social justice. Pico, Fernando Sins of the Father. Scholastic Canada. Hearne, Betsy & The Red Comb. BridgeWater. 1994. K-gr.3. McNaughton, Janet Anderson, Bethanne Historic tale from Puerto Rico. Make or Break Spring. Tuckarnore Books. To Seven Brave Women. Greenwillow: 1997. Reider, Katja Pearson, Kit Nye, Naomi Shihab Snail Started. Fiction. North-South. 1997. Awake and Dreaming. Puffin Books. Habibi. Simon & Schuster: 1997. K-gr.3. Walters, Eric Reuter, Bjarne War of the Eagles. Orca Book Publishers. The Joyce Barkhouse The Boys from St. Petri. Fiction. Dutton. Woodbury, Mary 1994. Gr.6-10. Brad’s Universe. Orca Book Publishers. Writing For Children Prize Van der Rol, Ruud & Verhoeven, Rian Wynne-Jones, Tim Sponsored by The Writers’ Federation of Nova Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary: A Photo- Stephen Fair. Groundwood Books. Scotia as part of the 22nd Annual Atlantic graphic Remembrance. Nonfiction. Viking. 1993. Gr.5-9. Writing Competition. Wass, Uli Ruth Schwartz Children’s First: Amy Bennet, Big Lots, NS Where’s Molly? Fiction. North-South. 1993. Book Award 1999 Second: Joanne Taylor, Halifax, NS Gr.2-4. Sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council and Third: Gloria Wesley-Desmond, Wassilkewa, Tatjana the Canadian Booksellers Assn. and awarded Monastery, NS Hostage to War: A True Story. Nonfiction. to books chosen by a jury of children. Scholastic. 1997. Gr.5 up. Picture Book Category Lee Bennett Hopkins Lotridge, Celia Barker Newbery Medal 1999 Music for the Tsar of the Sea. Illustrated by Poetry Award Sachar, Louis Harvey Chan. Groundwood Books. Johnson, Angela Holes. Foster/Farrar. YA-Middle Reader Category The Other Side: Shorter Poems. Orchard. 1999 Newbery Honour Book: Honour Book: Walters, Eric Levy, Constance Peck, Richard War of the Eagles. Orca Book Publishers. A Long Way from Chicago. Dial. A Crack in the Clouds. McElderry. Scott O’Dell Award for Manitoba Young Reader’s Orbis Pictus Award 1999 Armstrong, Jennifer Historical Fiction Choice Award 1999 Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Robinet, Harriette Gillem Pearson, Kit True Story of the Endurance Expedition. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule. Atheneum/ Awake and Dreaming. Puffin Books. Crown. Simon & Schuster: 1998. Margaret A. Edwards Riverbank Review’s Sequoyah Book Award Award 1999 Children’s Book of Oklahoma. Young Adult Category Anne McCaffrey for achievement in Distinction 1999 young adult literature. Klass, David Jones, Bill T. & Kuklin, Susan Danger Zone. Scholastic. 1996. For a list of her novels, see website: Dance. Photographs by Susan Kuklin. www.hevanet.com/seeber/anne.htm Hyperion. Children’s Book Category Wardlaw, Lee 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents. Dial, 1996. Mildred L. Batchelder Red Cedar Book Awards Award 1999 1998-99 Silver Birch Award 1998 For the year’s most outstanding translated book. Fiction Fiction Rabinovici, Schoschana Pearson, Kit Oppel, Kenneth Thanks to My Mother. Dial Books for Young Awake and Dreaming. Puffin. Silverwing. Readers. NonFiction NonFiction 1999 Honour Book: Brewster, Hugh Morgenstern, Susie Brewster, Hugh Anastasia’s Album. Penguin. Secret Letters from 0-10. Viking Children’s Anastasia’s Album. Books. 1998 Winner: Huleb, Josef Red Maple Award Sugerman Family Award The Robber and Me. Translated by Elizabeth For Ontario students in grades 7 to 9. Crawford. Holt. 1997. Gr. 5 up. Fiction. 1999 Nominees: 1998 Honour Books: To an author who presents Jewish heritage to Heidenreich, Elke Bell, William young people in an honest and meaningful Nero Corleone: A Cat’s Story. Fiction. Viking. Zack. Doubleday Canada. way. 1997. Gr. 4-6. Buffie, Margaret Miklowitz, Gloria Angels Turn Their Backs. Kids Can Press. Mandelbaum, Pili Masada: The Last Fortress. Eerdmans. 1998. You Be Me, I’ll Be You. Fiction. Kane/Miller. 1990. PS-gr.3.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 13 Award Winning Books Hill, Ernest Delacorte. 1998. 0385-32498-7. A Life for a Life. Simon & Schuster:1998. Peck, Richard Toronto IODE Book Award Hobbs, Will A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Sto- Helmer, Marilyn & The Maze. Morrow:1998. ries. Dial. 1998. 08037-2290-7. Mombourquette, Paul Holt, Kimberly Peck, Richard Fog Cat. Kids Can Press. My Louisiana Sky. Holt:1998. Strays Like Us. Dial. 1998. 0-8037-2291-5. Jimenez, Francisco Philip, Neil Young Adult Library The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant War and the Pity of War. Clarion. 0-395- Child. Univ. of New Mexico:1997. Nonfiction. 84982-9. Nonfiction. Service Assn. (YALSA) Johnson, Angela Porter, Tracey Heaven. Simon & Schuster:1998. Treasures in the Dust. HarperCollins/Joanna Best Books for 1999 Knots, Jerry Colter Bks. 1997. Abelove, Joan Knots in My Yoyo String. Knopf. 0-679- Potok, Chaim Go and Come Back. DK Ink/A Richard 88791-1. Nonfiction. Zebra and Other Stories. Knopf. 1998. Jackson: 1998. Koller, Jackie Quarles, Heather Alabiso, Vincent, Ed. The Falcon. Simon & Schuster/ A Door Near Here. Delacorte. 1998. Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World. Atheneum:1998. Ritter, John H. Abrams:1998. Nonfiction. Larson, Gary Choosing Up Sides. Philomel. 1998. Arnoldi, Katherine There’s a Hair in My Dirt!” A Worm’s Story. Rowling, J.K. The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage HarperCollins:1998. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scho- Single Mom. Hyperion: 1998. Nonfiction. Lawrence, Iain lastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks. 1998. Bauer, Joan The Wreckers. Delacorte:1998. Sachar, Louis Rules of the Road. Putnam: 1998. Laxalt, Gary Holes. Farrar/Frances Foster Bks. 1998. Bennett, Cheri Dust Devils. Univ. of Nevada: 1998. Salisbury, Graham Life in the Fat Lane. Delacorte: 1998. Lester, Julius Jungle Dogs. Delacorte. 1998. Blackwood, Gary From Slave Ship to Freedom Road. Dial:1998. Silvey, Anita The Shakespeare Stealer. Dutton: 1998. Nonfiction. Help Wanted: Short Stories About Young Peo- Bolden, Tonya, Ed. Lobel, Anita ple Working. Little Brown. 1997. 33 Things Every Girl Should Know: Stories, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. The Space Between Our Footsteps: Songs, Poems and Smart Talk by 33 Extra-or- Greenwillow:1998. 688-14931-6. Nonfic- Poems & Paintings from the Middle dinary Women. Crown: 1998. Nonfiction. tion. East Burgess, Melvin McCaughrean, Geraldine Simon & Schuster. 0-689-81233-7. Non- Smack. Holt: 1998. The Pirate’s Son. Scholastic. 1998. fiction. Clinton, Catherine McKee, Tim Spinelli, Jerry I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from Knots in my Yoyo String: The Autobiography African American Poetry. Houghton: 1998. a New South Africa. DK Ink/A Melanie of a Kid. Knopf/Borzoi. 1998. Nonfiction. Kroupa. 1998. Springer, Nancy Colman, Penny McKissack, Patricia C. & I am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot. Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of McKissack, Fredrick L. Philomel. 1998. Burial. Holt:1998. Nonfiction. Young, Black and Determined: A Biography Sweeney, Joyce Cormier, Robert of Lorraine Hansberry. Holiday. 1998. Non- The Spirit Window. Delacorte. 1998. Heroes. Delacorte:1998. fiction. Thomas, Jane Resh Dessen, Sarah Marrin, Albert Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth Someone Like You. Viking:1998. Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and 1. Clarion. 1998. Nonfiction. Farrell, Jeanette the Civil War. Dutton. 1997. Nonfiction. Thomas, Velma Maia Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease. Mastoon, Adam Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Farrar:1998. Nonfiction. The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Cel- Slavery and Emancipation. Crown. 0-609- Ferris, Jean ebrating Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young 60030-3. Nonfiction. Love Among the Walnuts. Harcourt:1998. People. Morrow. 1997. Nonfiction. Turner, Anne Flake, Sharon Matcheck, Diane A Lion’s Hunger: Poems of a First Love. The Skin I’m In. Hyperion/Jump:1998. The Sacrifice. Farrar. 1998. 0-374-36378- Marshall Cavendish. 1998. Nonfiction. Fleischman, Paul 1. Walter, Virginia Whirlgig. Holt:1998. Mikaelsen, Ben Making Up Megaboy. DK Ink/A Richard Fletcher, Susan Petey. Hyperion. 1998.07868-0426-2; PLB. Jackson Bk. 1998. Shadow Spinner. Simon & Schuster/ Napopli, Donna Jo Weaver, Will Atheneum:1998. Sirena. Scholastic 1998. 0-590-38388-4. Hard Ball. HarperCollins. 1998. Freedman, Russell Newth, Mette Willis, Connie Margaret: A Dancer’s Life. Clarion:1998. The Dark Light. Farrar. 1998. Tr.$17. To Say Nothing of the Dog. Bantam Books. Nonfiction. 0374-31701-1. 1998. Griffin, Adele Nicholson, Joy Wilson, Diane Lee The Other Shepards. Hyperion:1998. The Tribes of Palos Verdes. St. Martin’s. 1997. I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade. Orchard. Haddix, Margaret 0-31215677-4. 1998. Among the Hidden. Simon & Schuster:1998. Nye, Naomi Shihab, sel. Woodson, Jacqueline Hardman, Ric The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and If You Come Softly. Putnam. 1998. Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western. Paintings from the Middle East. S & S. 1998. Yolen, Jane & Coville, Bruce Delacorte:1998. 0-689-81233-7. Armageddon Summer. Harcourt. 1998. Helfer, Ralph Paulsen, Gary Modoc. Harper Collins:1998. Nonfiction. Soldier’s Heart: A Novel of the Civil War. Hesser, Terry Kissing Doorknobs. Delacorte:1998.

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Ethan Between Us. Walker. 1998. Jim Carrey. Silver Burdett Pr./Dillon. 1997. Young Adult Library Nixon, Joan Lowery Hamilton, Jake Service Assn. (YALSA) The Haunting. Delacorte. 1998. Special Effects in Film & Television. DK Ink. Paulsen, Gary 1998. Quick Picks for Young Adult Soldier’s Heart: A Novel of the Civil War. Jacobs, Thomas A. Readers 1999 Delacorte. 1998. What Are My Rights? 95 Questions and Fiction Paulsen, Gary Answers About Teens and the Law. Free The Transall Saga. Delacorte. 1998. Spirit. 1997. Bauer, Joan Jewel, (Kilcher) Rules of the Road. Putnam. 1998. Pierce, Tamora A Night Without Armour: Poems. Block, Francesca Lia Circle of Magic #2: Tris’s Book. Scholastic. HarperCollins. 1998. I Was a Teenage Fairy. HarperCollins/Joanna Preston, Richard Kahl, Jonathan Cotler Bks. 1998. The Cobra Event. Random. 1997. National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Butts, Nancy Pullman, Philip Weather. Scholastic. 1998. The Door in the Lake. Front St. 1998. Clockwork. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks. Masoff, Joy Conford, Ellen 1998. Fire! Scholastic Reference. 1998. Crust. HarperCollins. 1998. Curtney, Jane, Ed. Maynard, Christopher Cormier, Robert Read for Your Life: Tales of Survival from the Informania: Sharks. Candlewick. 1997. Heroes. Delacorte. 1998. Editors of Read Magazine. Millbrook. 1998. Newson, Lesley Cray, Jordan Rottman, S.L. Devastation: The World’s Worst Natural Dis- Gemini 7. Simon & Schuster/Aladdin. 1997. Hero. Peachtree. 1997. asters. DK Ink. 1998. Sachar, Louis Danzinger, Paula & Martin, Ann M. Packer, Alex J. P.S. Longer Letter Later. Scholastic, 1998. Holes. Foster Bks. 1998. How Rude!: The Teenager’s Guide to Good Saul, John Dessen, Sarah Manners, Proper Behaviour and Not Gross- The Presence. Fawcett. 1997. Someone Like You. Viking, 1998. ing People Out. Free Spirit. 1997. Ewing, Lynne Sleator, William Paulsen, Gary Party Girl. Knopf. 1998. The Boxes. Dutton, 1998. My Life in Dog Years. Delacorte. 1998. Ferris, Jean Smith, Roland Pfetzer, Mark & Galvin, Jack Bad. Farrar. 1998. Sasquatch. Hyperion, 1998. Within Reach: My Everest Story. Dutton. Flake, Sharon Soto, Gary 1998. The Skin I’m In. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun. Petty Crimes. Harcourt. 1998. Pratt, Jane 1998. Vande Celde, Vivian Beyond Beauty: Girls Speak Out on Looks, Glovach, Linda Ghost of a Hanged Man. Marshall Style and Stereotypes. Clarkson Potter, 1997. Beauty Queen. HarperCollins/Michael di Cavendish. 1998. Reynolds, David West Capua Bks. 1998. Warner, Sally Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary. DK Ink. Grant, Cynthia Sort of Forever. Knopf/Borzoi. 1998. 1998. The White Horse. Atheneum. Warner, Sally Squires, K.M. Hautman, Pete The Killer’s Cousin. Delacorte. 1998. NSYNC: The Official Book.Bantam. 1998. Stone Cold. Simon & Schuster. Yolen, Jane & Colville, Bruce Tanaka, Shelley Hesser, Jerry Spencer Armageddon Summer. Harcourt, 1998. Lost Temple of the Aztecs: What it was like Kissing Doorknobs. Delacorte. 1998. Zindel, Paul when the Spaniards invaded Mexico. Hoh, Diane Reef of Death. HarperCollins. 1998. Hyperion/Madison. 1998. Titanic: The Long Night. Scholastic. NonFiction Turner, Ann Kaye, Marilyn Alabiso, Vincent, Ed. A Lion’s Hunger: Poems of First Love. Marshall Amy, Number 7. Bantam/Skylark. 1998. Flash! Associated Press Covers the World. Cavendish. 1998. Kerven, Rosalind Abrams, 1998. Wick, Walter King Arthur. DK Ink. 1998. Arnoldi, Katherine Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks. Scholastic/ Larson, Gary The Amazing “True” Story of a Teenage Sin- Cartwheel. 1998. There’s a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm’s Story. gle Mom. Hyperion. 1998. Williams, Stanley “Tookie” & HarperCollins. 1998. Ash, Russell Becnel, Barbara Cottman Lawrence, Iain The Top Ten of Everything. DK Ink. 1997. Life in Prison. Morrow. 1998. The Wreckers. Delacorte. 1998. Ballard, Robert D. & Archbold, Rick Woodward, Fred Lerangis, Peter Ghost Liners: Exploring the World’s Greatest Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers. Abrams. Last Stop: Watchers. Scholastic.1998. Lost Ships. Little Brown. 1998. 1998. Lott, Bret Boitano, Brian & Harper, Susanne The Hunt Club. Villard. 1998. Boitano’s Edge. Simon & Schuster. 1997. McDaniel, Lurlene Deem, James M. Till Death Do Us Part. Bantam/Starfire. 1997. Bodies from the Bog. Houghton. 1998. Martin, Ann M. Elffers, Joost California Diaries #4: Amalia. Play With Your Food. Stewart, Tabori & Myers, Anna Chang. 1997. Guzzetti, Paula

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 15 The Horn Book Honor List Selected from the books of 1998. Halinka Picture Books Pressler, Mirjam; translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford. Holt. Arlene Alda’s 123: What Do You Holes See? Sachar, Louis. Foster/Farrar. Alda, Arlene. Written and illustrated with Mary on Horseback: Three Moun- Saunders Book photographs. Tricycle Press. tain Stories And If the Moon Could Talk Wells, Rosemary; illustrated by Peter Banks, Kate. George Illustrated by McCarty. Dial. b/w Hallensleben. Foster/Farrar. The Little Scarecrow Boy Folklore Brown, Margaret Wise. Illustrated by David A Handful of Beans: Six Fairy Tales Diaz. Cotler/HarperCollins. Retold by Steig, Jeanne; illustrated by Steig, Voices in the Park William. Di Capua/HarperCollins. Browne, Anthony. Written and illustrated. Poetry & Song DK Ink. Cool Melons-Turn to Frogs!: The I Lost My Bear Life and Poems of Issa Feiffer, Jules. Written and illustrated. Gollub, Matthew; illustrated by Stone, Morrow Junior. Kazuko G. Lee & Low. The Wild Boy: Based on the True This Land is Your Land Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron Guthrie, Woody; illustrated by Jakobsen, Written and illustrated by Gerstein, Kathy. Little. Mordecai. Foster/Farrar. So Many Circles, So Many Squares NonFiction Hoban, Tana. Illustrated with photographs. Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Greenwillow. Won the West Carlson, Laurie; illustrated by Meade, Holly. Fiction Kroupa/DK Ink. Go and Come Back Clouds of Glory Abelove, Joan. Jackson/DK Ink. Chaikin, Miriam; illustrated by Frampton, While No One Was Watching David. Clarion. Conly, Jane Leslie. Holt. Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life The Exiles in Love Freedman, Russell. Clarion. McKay, Hilary. McElderry. Chuck Close Up Close The Wild Kid Greenberg, Jari & Jordan, Sandra. DK Ink. Mazer, Harry. Simon. Walter Wick’s Optical Tricks The Dark Light Wick, Walter. Written and illustrated with Newth, Mette. Farrar. A Long Way from Chicago photographs. Scholastic. Peck, Richard. Dial.

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16 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Top 10 Fantasy Regional Canadian Picture Books Novels for Youth Booklist, May 1999. British Columbia Ontario Skellig Blades, Ann Bogart, Jo Ellen Almond, David.Gr. 5-8. 1999. Delacorte, Back to the Cabin · Mary of Mile 18 Gifts · The Balloon Tree. $15.95. 0-38532653-X. A Boy of Tache · A Salmon for Simon. Gilman, Phoebe Perloo the Bold Harris, Chris The Gypsy Princess Avi. Gr. 5-7. 1998. Scholastic. $16.95. BC Rail Grandma and the Pirates. 0-590-11002-0. LaFave, Kim (illustrator) Little, Jean & Claire McKay The Fires of Merlin Amos’ Sweater. Bats About Baseball. Barron, T. A. Gr. 7-10. 1998. Putnam/ Manson, Ainslee Little, Jean Philomel, $19.99. 0-399-32020-3. Just Like New. Revenge of the Small Smalls. Marlfox Ruurs, Margriet Reid, Barbara Jacques, Brian. Gr. 5-8. 1999. Putnam/ A Mountain Alphabet · Emma’s Eggs. The New Baby Calf · Have You Seen Birds? Philomel, $22.99. 0-399-23307-5. Thompson, Richard Wallace, Ian Dark Lord of Derkholm Jenny’s Neighbours · Sky full of Babies Mr. Kneebone’s New Digs · Sparrow’s Song. Jones, Diana Wynne. Gr. 7-12. 1998. Jill and the Jogero · Magee and the Lake Greenwillow, $16. 0-688-16004-2. Sang Spell Minder · I have to See This · Who · The Prairies Zoe and the Mysterious X. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Gr. 6-9. 1998. Andrews, Jan Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. $16. The Auction · North. 0-68982007-0. The Maritimes Bouchard, Dave & Jo Bannatyne Fire Arrow Fitch, Sheree Cugnet Pattou, Edith. Gr. 7-10. 1998. Harcourt. $17. If You Could Wear My Sneakers A Prairie Alphabet · A Prairie Year 0-15-201635-X. There’s a Mouse in My House If You’re Not From the Prairie. Circle of Magic: Briar’s Book Toes in My Nose · I am Small. Cumming, Peter Pierce, Tamora. Gr. 6-9. 1999. Scholastic. Richards, Nancy Willcox Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Day. $15.95. 0-590-55359-3. Farmer Joe Goes to the City Clockwork Farmer Joe Babysits · Farmer Joe’s Hot Day. Quebec Pullman, Philip. Illus. by Leonid Gore. Gr. 4- Wallace, Ian Carrier, Roch 7. 1998. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, The Mummer’s Song. The Hockey Sweater · A Happy New Year $16.95. 0-590-12999-6. The Boxing Champion. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s The North Stone Gay, Marie-Louise Rowling, 1. K. Gr. 4-7. 1998. Scholastic/ Coffey, Maria Lizzy’s Lion · When Vegetables Go Bad Arthur A. Levine. $16.95. 0-590-35340- A Cat in a Kayak. Rainy Day Magic · Three Little Bears 3. Cumming, Peter Angel and the Polar Bear. Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Day. Tibo Top 10 SciFi/ Kusugak, Michael Simon in Winter · Simon in Summer Arctic 1-2-3 · Hide and Sneak Simon in Fall · Simon in Spring. Fantasy Novels Baseball Bats for Christmas. Booklist, May 1999. Wallace, Mary Komarr The Inuksuk Book. Bujold, Lois McMaster. 1998. Baen; dist. by Simon & Schuster. 522. 0-671-87877-8. Full Tide of Night Dunn, J. R. 1998. Avon Eos. 0-380-97434-7. Stardust Gaiman, Neil. 1999. Avon/Spike. 0-380-97728-1. Poster! Dragonshadow Information Skills Hambly, Barbara. 1999. Ballantine/Del Rey. For the low price of $8.00 (that includes 0-345-42187-6. taxes and postage!) you can own and Mad Ship display your very own, full size, col- Hobb, Robin. 1999. Bantam/Spectra. 0-553-10333-4. our poster of last issue’s cover of Legends: Stories by the Masters of School Libraries in Canada! Created Modern Fantasy for School Libraries in Canada by Nel- Ed. by Robert Silverberg. 1998. Dist. by St. son Dewey (a Victoria, BC, cartoon- Martin’s. 0-312-86787-5. ist who is well known for his lively and Bloom colourful creations), this poster is both McCarthy, Wil. 1998. Ballantine/Del Rey. practical and desirable. 0-345-40857-8. See it in colour on the CSLA Website: Mission Child McHugh, Maureen F. 1998. Avon Eos. www.geocities.com/~abrown/csla.htm. To get your full colour poster (18 0-380-97456-8. x 24 in., suitable for schools everywhere), call, fax, email or post us. Please call Into the Darkness us for a quote on large orders. Available now from the order desk at: Turtledove, Harry. 1999. Dist. by St.Martin’s. 0-312-86895-2. CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Echoes of Honor 200 Elgin Street, Suite 602, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L5 · (613) 232-9625, Weber, David. 1998. Baen. Dist. by Simon Ext.310 Email: [email protected] & Schuster. 0-671-87892-1.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 17 The Best in Canadian Resources “Resource Links” The Parrot Bijou, Bonbon and Beau: The Gal, Laszlo, and Raffaella Gal. Gr. 1-3. Kittens who Danced for Degas Year’s Best 1998 Groundwood, 1997. Sweeney, Joan. Illustrated by Wu, Leslie. Gr. K-3. The Long Road Chronicle Books, 1998. Picture Books Garay, Louis. Gr. 2-8. Tundra, 1997. Morning on the Lake Elliot’s Emergency The Christmas Orange Waboose, Jan Bourdeau. Illustrated by Reczuch, Beck, Andrea. Kids Can, 1998. PS-2. Gillmor, Don. Gr. 1-6. Stoddart Kids, 1998. Karen. Gr. 1-4. Kids Can, 1998. The Divide Sea Otter Inlet A Winter’s Tale Bedard, Michael. Illustrated by McCully, Emily Godkin, Celia. Gr. K-6. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Wallace, Ian. Gr. PS-2. Groundwood, 1997. Arnold. Gr.1-5. Tundra, 1997. 1997. The Lighthouse Dog Glass Town: The Secret World of the Cameron and Me Waterton, Betty. Illustrated by Griffiths, Dean. Gr. Bronté Children Haris, Dorothy Joan. Gr. PS-2. Illustrated by Mets, PS-3. Orca, 1997. Bedard, Michael. Illustrated by Fernandez, Laura Marilyn. Stoddart, 1997. Each One Special & Jacobson, Rick. Gr.4-6. Stoddart, 1997. Hold On McGinty! Wishinsky, Frieda. Gr. K-3. Orca, 1998. Just Imagine Harty, Nancy. Illustrated by Kilby, Don. Gr. K-2. Cowboy on the Steppes Bingham, Dennis Lee. Gr. K-3. Fitzhenry & Doubleday, 1997. Zhang, Song Nan. Gr. 2-6. Tundra, 1997. Whiteside, 1998. The Fishing Summer - Grades 3 - 6 Jeremiah Learns to Read Jam, Teddy. Illustrated by Zhang, Ange. Gr. K-3. Fiction Bogart, Jo Ellen. Illustrated by Fernandez, Laura Groundwood, 1997. The Hullabaloo Bugaboo Day & Jacobson, Rick. Gr.1-3. Scholastic, 1997. Midnight in the Mountains Fitch, Sheree. Illustrated by Quinn, Jill. Gr. 1-3. Franklin’s Secret Club Lawson, Julie. Gr. K-3. Orca, 1998. Pottersfield, 1997. Bourgeois, Paulette. Gr.PS-2. Kids Can Press, 1998. Lady Kaguya’s Secret: Silverwing Maple Moon A Japanese Tale Oppel, Ken. Gr. 5-6. Harper Collins, 1997. Crook, Connie Brummel. Illustrated by Cameron, Marton, Jirina. Gr. 2 up. Annick, 1997. Miracle at Willow Creek Scott. Gr.K-4. Stoddart, 1997. Dume’s Roar LeBox, Annette. Illustrated by Charko, Kasia. Gr. A Child’s Treasury of Mollel, Tololwa M. Illustrated by Blankley Roman, 4-8. Second Story Press, 1998. Nursery Rhymes Kathy. Gr. PS-2. Stoddart Kids, 1997. Wings to Fly Denton, Kady MacDonald. Gr.PS-4. Kids Can, The Angel Tree Lottridge, Cecelia Barker. Gr. 3-6. Groundwood/ 1998. Muller, Robin. Gr. 3 up. Doubleday Canada, 1997. Douglas & McIntyre, 1997. Trouble With Bubbles Night Fun Blue True Dream of Sky Is the Spaghetti Ready? Quinlan, Patricia. Illustrated by Berg, Ron. Gr. K- Maynard, Meredy. Gr. 6-8. Polestar, 1997. New at the Zoo 3. Annick, 1997. The Nose From Jupiter New Reader Series - Bungaloo Books. The Party Scrimger, Richard. Gr. 3-6. Tundra/McClelland & Edwards, Frank B. & John Bianchi. Gr. K-1. Reid, Barbara. Gr. PS-3. Scholastic, 1997. Stewart, 1998. Bungalo Books, 1998. Dracula Duff the Giant Killer Gogol’s Coat Stoker, Bram. Retold by Wynn-Jones, Tim. Illus- Wilson, Budge. Gr. 2-4. Formac, 1997. Fagan, Cary. Gr. 1-3. Tundra Books, 1998. trated by Gal, Laszlo. Gr. 6-8. Key Porter, 1997.

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- Grades 7 - 12 Pioneer Crafts Animals Eat the WEIRDEST Things Fiction Greenwood, Barbara. Illustrated by Collins, Swanson, Diane. Gr. 4-10. Whitecap, 1998. Stranger at Bay Heather. Gr. 3-7. Kids Can, 1997. Bug Bites: Insects Hunting Insects... Akers, Don. Gr. 7-10. Stoddart, 1997. The Kids Book of Canadian and more Bone Dance Prime Ministers Swanson, Diane. Gr. 2-6. Whitecap, 1997. Brooks, Martha. Gr. 7-9. Groundwood/Douglas Hancock, Pat. Gr. 4-7. Kids Can, 1998. Welcome to the World Series & McIntyre, 1997. The Jumbo Book of Nature Science Swanson, Diane. Gr. 1-6. Whitecap, 1998. One Thing That’s True Hickman, Janet & the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. By Truck to the North Foggo, Cheryl. Gr. 6-10. Kids Can, 1997. Illustrated by Shore, Judy. Gr. 1-6. Kids Can, 1996. Turnbull, Andy. Gr. 3-7. Annick, 1998. What If: Amazing Stories Selected Whales: Killer Who Blue Whales Jaguars by Monica Hughes and more Watt, E. Melanie. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Hughes, Monica, Editor. Gr. 7-10. Tundra, 1998. Hodge, Deborah. Illustrated by Stephens, Pat. Gr. Black Rhinos The Only Outcast 1-5. Kids Can, 1997. Watt, E. Melanie. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Johnston, Julie. Gr. 7-12. Tundra, 1998. Wild dogs: Wolves, Coyotes and I Spy Spooky Night. A Picture Don’t Think Twice Foxes Puzzle Book Lohans, Alison. Gr. 10-12. Thistledown, 1997. Hodge, Deborah. Illustrated by Stephens, Pat. Gr. Wick, Walter. Photographs by Walter Wick, rid- The Hollow Tree 1-5. Kids Can, 1997. dles by Jean Marzollo. Gr. 1-6. Scholastic, 1996. Lunn, Janet. Gr. 5-9. Knopf, 1997. The Young Snowboarder Beyond the Rainbow Warrior Iguchi, Bryan. Photography by James Jackson. Gr. Non-Fiction - Grades 7-12 Morpurgo, Michael, Editor. Gr. 5-8. Raincoast, 4-12. Stoddart, 1997. Towards Freedom: the African- 1996. Hooray for Dairy Farming Canadian Experience Make or Break Spring Hooray for Orchard Farming Alexander, Ken & Glaze, Avis. Gr. 9 up. Umbrella, McNaughton, Janet. Gr. 6-10. Tuckamore Books, Hooray for Bee keeping 1996. 1998. Hooray for Sheep Farming Build Your Own Underwater Robot War of the Eagles Hooray for Farming Series. and Other Wet Projects Walters, Eric. Gr. 7-10. Orca, 1998. Kalman, Bobbie. Gr. 1-6. Crabtree. 1998. Bohm, Harry & Jensen, Vickie. Illustrated by Nola Non-Fiction - Preschool - Gr. 6 Great While Sharks Johnston. Gr. 7-12. Westcoast, 1997. Countries of the World - Canada Levine, Marie. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Gage Canadian Thesaurus Barlas, B. & Tompsett, N. Gr. 6-7. Gareth Stevens Blue Whales Gr. 7 up. Gage, 1998. Publishing, 1998. Miller-Schroeder, Patricia. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Fire Into Ice The Newest and Coolest Dinosaurs Japan; Its People and Culture Houston, James. Gr. 5 up. Tundra. 1998. Currie, Philip J. & Mastin, Colleayn 0. Illustrated Parsons, Jim. Gr. 5-8. Reidmore, 1997. The Official Kids’Book of Baseball by Sovak, Jan. Gr. 1-6. Grasshopper Books, 1998. Cookie Critters: A Cookbook and (3rd ed.) Alligators and Crocodiles Cookie Cutter Set Jordan, Godfrey. Gr. 4-8. Random House of Dudley, Karen. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Pearson, Debora. Illustrated by Van Kampen. Canada, 1997. Bald Eagles Vlasts. Gr. 3-7. Summerville House, 1997. Deemed Unsuitable Dudley, Karen. Gr. 3-6. Weigl, 1998. Space Exploration Sheppard, Bruce. Gr. 12. Umbrella, 1997. Gage Canadian School Thesaurus Stott, Carole. Photography by Steve Gorton. Gr. 4 Gr. 3 up. Gage Educational, 1998. up. Stoddart, 1997.

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Selected by Shirley Lewis Fire Ship Laura’s Choice: The Story of Laura National Book Service Brandis, Marianne. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Porcu- Secord Updated October 1999. pine’s Quill. 0889841403. The story of the Crook, Connie Brummel. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. warship “Sir Isaac Brock” and its activity during Windflower. 1895308127. The story of Laura the period of the War of 1812 is seen through the Secord’s perilous journey to warn Lieutenant 1812: Jeremy and the General eyes of young Dan Dobson, a recent immigrant to FitzGibbon of the impending danger of an Ibbitson, John. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Prentice-Hall. the fledgling city of York. Gives a very accurate invasion of Canada by the American army is 0025540852. Jeremy, orphaned at 15 becomes and detailed picture of life in Upper Canada. brought to life in this action packed novel. the batman to General Isaac Brock during the war Flight Meyer’s Creek of 1812. Crook, Connie Brummel. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Crook, Connie Brummel. Gr. 7 up. Fiction. Accidental Orphan General/Stoddart. 0773674128. A story of the General/Stoddart. 0773674365. Set in 1786, Horne, Constance. Fiction. Gr. 3-7. Beach United Empire Loyalists, featuring the Waltermeyer this novel, a sequel to “Flight” follows the further Holme. 088878385X. Ellen is unintentionally family, and especially George, who has been left exploits of the United Empire Loyalists through the shipped to Canada as an orphan, where she is behind in Canada to care for the family farm. But adventures of 19 year old spirited Mary Meyers. George goes after his mother and six brothers in My Name is Seepeetza adopted by a Manitoba family living on a pioneer New York. farm. Sterling, Shirley. Gr. 6 up. Fiction. Belonging Place Gold Fever Trail Hughes, Monica. Fiction. Gr. 3-6. General/ Groundwood. 0888991657. A stirring novel Little, Jean. Fiction. Gr. 3-6. Puffin Books. about life in an Indian residential school, showing 0140386637. A Scottish family migrating to Stoddart. 0773672796. When Henry and Sarah how harsh the life was for the students, who were Thorpe’s mother dies, the two children set off as forced to attend. Told through the journal entries Canada face the hardship and excitement of being stowaways to search for their father in the Klondike, pioneers in a new land. of 12 year old Martha Stone. who has gone off to seek his fortune in the gold Naomi’s Road Blood Red Ochre fields. Major, Kevin. Fiction. Gr. 7-up. Bantam Seal. Hand of Robin Squires Kogowa, Joy. Fiction. Gr. 3-6. General/ 0770427170. Nancy, the new girl in his class is Clark, Joan. Fiction. Gr. 4-8. General/ Stoddart. 0773757694. Naomi and her Japa- especially attractive to David, and the mysterious nese Canadian family are sent to an internment Stoddart. 0773674268. The mystery of the hid- camp during World War II. Naomi recounts her teenager draws him into a strange meeting with den treasure of Oak Island on the coast of Nova Dauoodaset, one of the last of the Beothuk tribe. A adventures and travails. time-travel drama. Scotia is introduced in this novel of Robin Squires, Nellie L. an 18th century adventure-seeker who tries to Broken Blade locate the buried loot. Crook, Connie Brummel. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Durbin, William. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Dell Hiding Place General/Stoddart. 0773674225. Nellie Yearling. 044041184X. Thirteen year-old Pierre Cook, Lyn. Fiction. Gr. 5 up. Fiction. McClung’s early life is described in this fictional biography of the famous Canadian pioneer femi- replaces his father, a voyageur, and travels around General/Stoddart. 0773758380. Justine and the fur trade route, over 2,400 miles on a gruelling, nist. but exciting canoe trip. A fine historical novel of her little brother Denis are threatened after their No Man’s Land family home is destroyed by fire and their parents New France. are killed. Brutal Monsieur Gaudin wants to marry Major, Kevin. Fiction. Gr. 9 up. Doubleday. Copper Sunrise 12 yr. old Justine, which is acceptable in New 0385255799. A powerful novel depicting the Buchan, Bryan. Fiction. Gr. 4-7. Scholastic. France in 1650. So Justine and Denis must find a life and times of the soldiers of the Newfoundland 0590738356. The story of the massacre of the place to hide. A fast-moving historical novel. Regiment at the Battle of the Somme during World Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland is told through Hollow Tree War I, the single greatest disaster of Newfound- the eyes of two friends: Jamie and his Beothuk friend Winner of the 1998 Governor-General’s land’s history. Tethani. Award. Ocean Between Curse of the Viking Grave Lunn, Janet. Fiction. Gr.5 up. Fiction. Knopf Edwards, Margaret Bunel. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Mowat, Farley. Fiction. Gr. 5-7. M&S. Canada. 0676971431. When her cousin Gideon Napoleon. 0929141199. Isabelle and her Huguenot family move from their comfortable life 0771066805. A sequel to “Lost in the Barrens”, is hanged as a British spy during the war of this novel features friends Awasin, Jamie and Independence, young Phoebe Olcott undertakes the in France to pioneer Canada and life in the settle- Peetyuk who become involved in tracking Viking delivery of a secret message through the battle lines. ment of Namur in 1874. relics and an ancient tomb revealing traces of the A story of danger, bravery and excitement. One Proud Summer way of life of the Viking explorers and settlers. Home Child Hewitt, Marsha. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Penguin. Days of Terror Haworth-Attard, Barbara. Fiction. Gr.4 up. 0140327347. A novelized description of the Smucker, Barbara. Fiction. Gr. 5-9. Puffin. Roussan. 1896184189. A young English 1946 Valleyfield strike, as seen through the eyes of 0140313060. Ten-year-old Mennonite Peter orphan boy arrives in Canada only to discover that a young textile worker, 13 year old Lucie Laplante. becomes caught up in the turbulent times of the he is treated as an indentured servant at his new Pit Pony Russian revolution of 1917 and joins his family on “home”. This novel describes the harsh conditions Hewitt, Marsha. Fiction. Gr. 5 up. Harper- the dangerous and exhausting mass migration to on a Canadian farm at the turn of the century. Collins. 0771570236. This fine historical novel, Canada and a small town where they will settle I Heard the Owl Call My Name near Winnipeg. set in Cape Breton, follows the trials and tribula- Dream Carvers Craven, Margaret. Fiction. Gr.6 up. Dell. tions of 11 year old Willy, who works in a coal mine with Gem, a pit pony who he comes to love. Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award. 0440343690. A young clergyman is assigned to a remote, ancient village in the Pacific Northwest, Promise Song Clark, Joan. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Puffin. where the younger generation of Native citizens are Holeman, Linda. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. Tundra. Thrand, a Norse boy of the 11th 0140386297. disenchanted from their heritage and alcoholism 0887763871. 14-year-old Rosetta and her little century, is captured by the Beothuk Indians. At first is taking over the culture. sister Flora come out to Canada from an orphan- he struggles to return to his home in Greenland, King’s Daughter age in England expecting to be adopted by a but gradually adopts the ways of the “red ochre” Martel, Suzanne. Fiction. Gr. 4-9. peoples. Canadian family. Instead, these two Home Finders Keepers Groundwood. 0888992181. When 18 year old children are separated and Rosetta is treated as an Jeanne Chatel is given the opportunity to sail from indentured servant. But she is determined to find Spalding, Andrea. Fiction. Gr. 5 up. Beach France in 1672 and go to the New World to marry her little sister no matter how long it takes her. Holme. 088783590. Danny finds an Indian an unknown husband, a French settler, she jumps Describes the harshness of pioneer life. lance head while walking through a field, which at the chance. This translation from the French Question of Loyalty leads him to discover the heritage of the Peigan paints a detailed picture of the exciting times of Greenwood, Barbara. Fiction. Gr. 5-7. Scho- nation. New France. lastic. 0590714503. A fast-moving novel about the Rebellion of 1837, featuring a young wounded rebel, Dan. He takes refuge in a barn owned by a Loyalist family, and is discovered by their daugh- ter Deborah, who decides to help him.

20 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Canadian History List 40 Great Works of Rebellion That Scatterbrain Booky Scanlan, W.J. Fiction. Gr. 6-9. General/ Hunter, Bernice Thurman. Fiction. Gr. 4-6. Canadian Fiction Stoddart. 0773752854. 15-year-old Jack Scholastic. 0590710826. Toronto during the (From Quill and Quire, July, 1999) Rawlins becomes deeply involved in the Riel great Depression is vividly described through the 1. The Stone Angel Rebellion of 1885. eyes of Beatrice, known as “Booky” whose every- Margaret Laurence. 1964. Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada day life includes a worried mother, unemployed 2. The Wars father and riveting descriptions of the life and times Timothy Findley. 1977. Brandis, Marianne. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Porcu- of families in Toronto. 3. As for Me and My House pine’s Quill. 0889841756. When 14 yr. old Ticket to Curlew Sinclair Ross. 1941 Adam Wheeler arrives in Canada from England, Lottridge, Celia. Fiction. Gr. 4 up. 4. Fifth Business he has no idea that he will become involved in When the Ferrier Robertson Davies. 1970. the Rebellion of 1837, meeting William Lyon Groundwood. 0888992211. 5. The Apprenticeship Mackenzie, and befriending two sisters, Cornelia family moves to Curlew Alberta from Iowa, young of Duddy Kravitz and Charlotte de Grassi. A detailed look at the Sam feels that life on the prairies has nothing to Mordecai Richler. 1959. rebellion as well as the life and times of pioneers in offer - but he soon learns that life as a settler in the 6. Lives of Girls and Women Upper Canada. early 1900’s has lots of activities that he never Alice Munro. 1971. Root Cellar imagined. 7. Who Has Seen the Wind? Lunn, Janet. Fiction. Gr. 5 up. Puffin. Tinderbox W.O. Mitchell. 1947. 0140380361. Twelve years old and unhappy, Brandis, Marianne. Fiction. Gr. 7 up. Porcu- 8. Sunshine Sketches of a Pioneer life in Up- Little Town Rose goes down into the root cellar of her new home, pine’s Quill. 0889841535. Stephen Leacock. 1912. and discovers that she has been transported in time per Canada comes to life through the adventures 9. The Diviners back to the time of the American Civil War. of 13 yr -old Emma Anderson and her brother who Margaret Laurence. 1974. Shadow in Hawthorn Bay are orphaned by a devastating fire in their home. 10. Anne of Green Gables Lunn, Janet. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Puffin. Treasure of Long Sault L.M. Montgomery. 1908. Four years after Mary’s beloved Hughes, Monica. Fiction. Gr. 4 up. General. 11. Obasan 0140324364. Joy Kogawa. 1981. cousin Duncan leaves the highlands of Scotland to 07736-7277-X. Two boys on a holiday become caught up in an historical mystery when they find 12. The Double Hook seek his fortune in Upper Canada, she “hears” a Sheila Watson. 1959. cry for help and sets off to the wilds of Upper an Indian treasure dating back to the time of the Battle of Chrysler’s Farm in 1813. 13. The Mountain and the Valley Canada to find him. A romantic novel of pioneer Ernest Buckler. 1952. Canada. Underground to Canada 14. The Stone Dairies Sioux Winter Smucker, Barbara. Fiction. Gr. 7-9. Penguin. Carol Shields. 1993. Freeman, Bill. Fiction. Gr. 5-8. Lorimer. 014031122X. Julilly and Liza, slaves in Missis- 15. Green Grass, Running Water 1550286528. Although Jamie and his sister sippi, travel the Underground Railway in their Thomas King. 1993. escape to Canada and freedom. Based on actual 16. Beautiful Losers Kate’s adventures verge on the improbable, this escapes and the activities of abolitionists Alexan- Leonard Cohen. 1966. story is adventure-packed as the brother-sister team der M. Ross of Canada and Levi Coffin of Ohio. 17. The English Patient join their friend Black Eagle, an Assiniboine, in his White Jade Tiger Michael Ondaatje. 1992. search for his mother who has been captured by 18. Under the Volcano the Sioux, an enemy tribe. Life in the Canadian West Lawson, Julie. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Beach Malcolm Lowry. 1947. in the 1870’s is vividly depicted. Holme. 0888783329. Jasmine takes a field trip 19. In the Skin of a Lion Sky is Falling with her class to Chinatown - and is transported Michael Ondaatje. 1987. Pearson, Kit. Fiction. Gr. 5-8. Puffin. back in time to the Chinatown of the 1880’s. She 20. By Grand Central Station I travels to the Fraser Canyon during the building of Norah and her little brother Gavin Sat Down and Wept 0140341897. the Canadian Pacific Railway and sees the appall- Elizabeth Smart. 1945. are unwilling visitors to Canada, when they are ing conditions under which the Chinese workers 21. Fugitive Pieces shipped off to live with the wealthy Ogilvy family must endure. Includes a search for a magic amulet Anne Michaels. 1996. in Toronto, where they have been sent for safety for from ancient times. 22. A Fine Balance the duration of World War II. The children’s gradual White Mist Rohinton Mistry. 1995. adjustment to their life is seen through the eyes of 23. The Temptations of Big Bear Norah. First in a trilogy. Smucker, Barbara. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Penguin. Rudy Wiebe. 1973. Soldier Boys 0140321446. A time travel novel featuring May, 24. Such a Long Journey Richards, David. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Thistle- an adopted girl who knows little of her native Rohington Mistry. 1991. down Press. 1895449065. The story of the Riel ancestry, and her friend Lee who is proud of his 25. The Handmaid’s Tale native heritage. May and Lee are drawn back in Rebellion is seen through the eyes of young Tom Margaret Atwood. 1985. Kerslake, a bugler in the Winnipeg Rifles militia. time to the land of their ancestors, on the shores of 26. Coming Through Slaughter Lake Michigan in the 1830’s. Michael Ondaatje. 1976. Stone Orchard Wind Wagon 27. The Watch That Ends the Night Merritt, Susan E. Fiction. Gr. 6 up. Vanwell. Lottridge, Celia. Fiction. Gr. 2-5. Hugh MacLennan. 1959. The Fenian raids and life in 1551250306. A playful story 28. Swamp Angel Groundwood. 0888992343. Edith Wilson. 1954. pioneer Ontario in 1866 are described through the of pioneer Sam Peppard who builds a wagon com- eyes of two children, Maude and Will, who are 29. Two Solitudes captured by the Fenians and made to care for the plete with sail to take advantage of the wind and Hugh MacLennan. 1945. wounded enemy. travels across the prairie, to the West coast. 30. Such is My Beloved Summer of the Mad Monk Wings to Fly Morley Callaghan. 1934. Winner of the 1994 CLA Book of the Year Lottridge, Celia. Fiction. Gr. 3-7. 31. Who Do You Think You Are A companion Alice Munro. 1978. Award. Groundwood. 0888992807. 32. Tay John Taylor, Cora. Fiction. Gr. 4 up. Greystone/ novel to ATicket to Curlew,@ this follows the fur- Howard O’Hagan. 1939. ther adventures of the Ferrier family and life in pio- 33. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood General. 1550544578. A mysterious stranger neer settler times on the Alberta prairie as seen named Raspinsky comes into the life of young Pip, Allstair MacLeod. 1976. through the eyes of Margaret, Sam’s younger sister. 34. Surfacing who comes to believe that he is actually Rasputin, Within a Painted Past the man who had such a controlling influence over Margaret Atwood. 1972. the wife of the Russian Tsar. Hutchins, Hazel. Fiction. Gr. 5-7. Annick 35. Not Wanted on the Voyage Press. 1550379895. Allison, 12 years old, is Timothy Findley. 1984. The Temptations of Big Bear 36. St. Urbain’s Horseman A Governor General’s award winner visiting her aunt in the Rocky Mountains when she discovers that a painting in her room allows her to Mordecai Richler. 1971. (1973). venture into the past - and she is transported 100 37. The Edible Woman Wiebe, Rudy. Fiction. Gr. 8 up. M&S. years into the past. Margaret Atwood. 1969. When chief Big Bear refuses to go 38. Bear 0771034547. Marian Engel. 1976. along with the white man’s plan to put his people 39. Home Truths on a reserve, he stands alone. This moving novel Mavis Gallant. 1981. describes the dilemma of the native people in 1876 40. From the Fifteenth District on the prairies. Mavis Gallant. 1979.

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22 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Non-Book Awards Jacob Have I Loved (4 cassettes) Kristen’s Fairy House Andrew Carnegie Medal Christina Moore. Recorded Books. 39 min. Great White Dog Picture Co. for Excellence in recordedbooks.com Fiction. Ages 7-11. Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz (Cassette or CD) Land Snails and Their Life Cycle Children’s Video Hayes Greenfield and others. Baby Music 12 min. Klaudiusz Jankowski Prod. Ages 9 up. Moynihan, Frank. Producer. Boom. [email protected] Oceans in Motion The First Christmas. 21 min. VHS. Distrib- John Henry (Book and cassette) 24 min. National Geographic. Ages 7 up. uted by Billy Budd Films. 1998. Claymation. Samuel L. Jackson. Weston Woods. Sheep Crossing scholastic.com 27 min. Great White Dog Pictures. World Story of the birth of Jesus. Joyful Noise (Cassette) of sheep and wool. All ages. B. Caruso, J. McDonough, C. Moore, Smoking: Truth or Dare Association for Library J. Woodmans. Recorded Books. 52 min. Arnold Shapior. Ages 10 up. Service to Children (ALSC) recordedbooks.com Leon’s Story (Cassette) Notable Websites Notable Computer Software Graham Brown. Recorded Books. At the Tomb of Tutankhamen Carmen Sandiago, Math Detective recordedbooks.com www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/ (CD-ROM) 1998. Win95/Power Macintosh. Moorchild (5 cassettes) index.html Broderbund. Virginia Leishman. Recorded Books. Audrey Wood’s Web Site Dr. Seuss Kindergarten (CD-ROM) recordedbooks.com Author/illustrator. www.audreywood.com 1998. Win 95/98. Broderbund. Norwegian Tales of Enchantment FunBrain.com Dr. Seuss Preschool (CD-ROM) (CD) Judith Simundson. Distributed by Learning games. www.funbrain.com 1998. Broderbund. Penfield Press. [email protected] Kids’ Castle Encarta 99 (CD-ROM) Rascal (3 cassettes) Smithsonian Institution site. Win95/98 (Mac version available by Web Jim Weiss. Listening Library. listeninglib.com www.kidscastle.si.edu download). 1993-1998. Microsoft. Rudy and the Roller Skates (Cassette) Kinetic City Cyber Club www.kineticcity.com Notable Children’s Recordings Dan Keding. Turtle Creek Recordings. [email protected] The Moonlit Road Autumnsongs (CD) Running Out of Time (4 cassettes) Storytelling. www.themoonlitroad.com/ John McCutcheon. Rounder Records. Kimberly Schraf. Listening Library. welcome001.html [email protected] listeninglib.com Back on Broadway (CD) Sarny: A Life Remembered (3 cassettes) 1998 Goldmaster Award The Broadway Kids. Lightyear Entertain- Lynne Thigpen. Recorded Books. ment. [email protected] (Technology Connection Journal) recordedbooks.com Ben’s Trumpet (Book and cassette) Presented annually for the best software The Silver Chair (2 cassettes) Charles Turner and jazz musicians. Live. Oak BBC Radio dramatization. Bantam of the year. Media. [email protected] The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Doubleday Dell Audio. bdd.com Reference Category Swingin’ in the Rain (Cassette) (2 cassettes) C.J. Critt. Recorded Books. What Do I Read Next? Maria Muldaur. Music For Little People. recordedbooks.com Gale. Book selection for children, young [email protected] Chrysanthemum (Book and cassette) adults, adults Educator’s Internet CD Club Under the Green Corn Moon: (Classroom connect). Meryl Streep. Weston Woods. Native American Lullabies scholastic.com (Cassette or CD) Performed by various Productivity Category The Door in the Wall (2 cassettes) Native American artists. Silver Wave On the Brink: The Multimedia Produc- Roger Rees. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio. Records. silverwave.com tion Kit About Endangered species & bdd.com Under the Mango Tree: Stories From Habitats of North America Eleanor Roosevelt (2 cassettes) Spanish Speaking Countries (Cassette) Bytes of Learning. Barbara Caruso. Recorded Books. Elida Guardia Bonet. Zarati Press. recordedbooks.com Curriculum Related Category [email protected] Elmopalooza! (Cassette) Kid Phonics 2 World Tales, Live at Bennington Sesame Street characters. Sony Wonder. Fun experiences while sounding out over College (Cassette or CD) 1-800-223-7672 ext.115 350 words. Davidson. Tim Jennings & Leanne Ponder. Eastern 40 Winks (Cassette) Coyote. together.net/~folktale Jessica Harper. NewSound. Resource Links [email protected] Notable Children’s Videos Year’s Best 1998 Freak the Mighty (2 cassettes) Chrysanthemum (Resource Links Journal) Elden Henson. Listening Library. 15 min. Weston Woods. Based on book by listeninglib.com Kevin Henkes. Ages 3-10. Audio-Visual Resources The Gardener (Book and cassette) Dance Lexie, Dance Cameron, Anne Bonnie Kelly-Young. Live Oak Media. 15 min. An Irish Protestant girl yearns to Loon and Raven Tales: Traditional Legends [email protected] be a Riverdancer. Fiction. Ages 8-12. of the Northwest. Coast. Harbour. 1997. Gr. The Great Fire (3 cassettes) Elmopalooza! 1 up. John McDonough. Recorded Books. 30 min. CTW. Muppets. All ages. Campbell, Don recordedbooks.com The First Christmas The Mozart Effect: Music for children. Com- If Fish Could Sing... (Cassette) 21 min. Billy Budd Films. Nativity story. piled by Don Campbell. Children’s Book Teresa Doyle. Bedlam Records, distributed Ages 5 up. Store. Gr. 2 up. by Rounder Kids. [email protected] Good Night, Gorilla Diamond, Charlott In My Hometown (Cassette or CD) 8 min. Weston Woods. Based on a book Diamonds and Daydreams. Charlott Dia- Tom Chapman. Sony Wonder. by Peggy Rathmann. Ages 4-8. mond Music Inc. 1996. Gr. K to 4. 1-800-223-7672 ext.115

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 23 Awards: Non-Books National Film Board Rights From the Heart Part 3 Barbed Wire and Mandolins. 1997. Gr. 9 up. VHS. Seven animated shorts covering vari- National Film Board ous aspects of human rights. National Film Board. 1998. The Battle of Vimy Ridge. 1997. Gr. 7-12. National Film Board Veronica’s Story VHS. Veronica tries to reach out to her un- Defying the Law. 1997. Gr. 9 up. The Children’s Group caring mother and is attacked by her moth- er’s boyfriend. Univ. of California Extension The Classical Kids Connection. Gr. 1-6. Magic Lantern Center for Media & Independent learning. CD-Rom Resources b/w Life & Times of the Prime Ministers McClelland & Stewart. 1997. Grade 4 up. The 1998 Canadian & World Encyclopedia National Film McClelland & Stewart. 1997. Grade 4 up. Settlers of Upper Canada IDON East Multimedia. Grades 7-12. Board Videos Stardate Canada 2232 Citizenship & Immigration Canada & Ca- Canadian Best Sellers nadian Heritage. 1995. Grades 7-12. National Film Board. Oct.1/98 to Sept.30/99. Internet Resources Berit’s Best Sites for Children John McCrae’s War db.cochran.com/li_toc:theoPage.db (46:11) 113C9198097. $39.95. CBC 4 Kids Burning Times, The www.cbc4kids.ca/ (56:13) 113H9190008. $39.95. Elements Game of Her Life Online environmental magazine. Abridged educational version. elements.nb.ca 113C9198100. $39.95. Caught in the Net Young Adult Library (13:58) 143C9197039. $29.95. Forgotten Warriors Services Assn. (51:15) 113C9196142. $39.95. Selected Videos for Young Adults O Canada (02:14) 143C0097071. $14.95. 1999 Surviving Death - Stories of Grief American Civil Liberties Union: (47:16) 113C9198029. $39.95. A History Strangers in the House VHS. Films for the Humanities & Sciences. 1997. (52:00) 113C9197157. $39.95. The Band McGill, Mahler and Montreal VHS. Young love, divorce, anorexia, death. (57:30) 113N9197185. $39.95. Univ. of California Extension Center for Reluctant Deckhand, The Media and Independent Learning. 1998. (45:50) 113C9195141. $49.95. (510) 642-0460 Fax: (510) 643-9272 Louisbourg Under Siege Cancelled Lives: Letters from (45:00) 113C9197027. $39.95. the Inside Sunrise over Tiananmen Square VHS. Substance Abuse. Bureau for At-Risk (29:25) 113C9198030. $39.95. Youth. 1997. 1-800-999-6884. Journey to Nunavut: The Kreelak Fax: (516) 349-5521 Story Creatures Fantastic: Creatures (48:15) 143C9198134. $39.95. of the Night What’s This? Understanding VHS. Vampires, monsters, ghosts. Contemporary Art DK Publishing. 1998. 113C9196181. $39.95. In the Mix: Live by the Gun, Die by Explorers of Canada the Gun Compilation. (59:04) 113C0165209. $19.95. VHS. In the Mix/Castle Works. 1998. Sweater, The (212) 684-3940. Fax: (212) 684-4015. (10:21) 113C0100798. $29.95. Internet Searching Skills Totem Talk VHS. Library Video Company. 1998. (22:00) 193C9196167. $39.95. Magnificent Fish: Forgotten Giants First Nations, The Circle Unbroken VHS. Sharks, tuna and other bill-fish. The Eduation. Set of 7 videos. 113C9198068. Video Project. 1997. 1-800-475-2638 $299.00. Fax: (831) 336-2168. Asylum Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives (78:12) 113C9198018. $39.95. of Adolescent Girls Beating the Streets VHS. Challenges facing today’s teenage girls. (48:03) 113C9198025. $39.95. Media Education Foundation. 1998. 1-800-897-0089. Fax: (413) 586-8398.

24 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. KLIATT Editor’s Choice Audiobooks 1998

The Angel of Darkness Native Son Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Carr, Caleb. May, 1998. Simon & Schuster Wright, Richard. Recorded Books. Urban Legends Audio. Read by Boyd Gaines. Abridged. Read by Peter Francis James. Holt, David & Mooney, Bill. High Windy The Autobiography of Miss Jane The Other Side of the River Audio. Read by the authors. Pittman Kotlowitz, Alex. Bantam Doubleday Dell To Kill a Mockingbird Gaines, Ernest J. Blackstone Audiobooks. Audio. Read by Stanley Tucci. Lee, Harper. Audio Partners. Read by Tonya Jordan. Pandora Read by Rose Prichard. Brain Storm Rice, Anne. Books On Tape. Whalesong Dooling, Richard. Recorded Books. Read by Kate Reading. Siegel, Robert. Listening Library. Read by George Guidall. Rebecca Read by Don West. Brave New World DuMaurier, Daphne. Penguin Audiobooks. The Wheel of Life Huxley, Aldous. Chivers North America. Read by Joanna David. Abridged. Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth. Simon & Schuster Read by Peter Firth. Redwall Audio. Read by Ellen Burstyn. The Bronté Collection: Jacques, Brian. Listening Library. The White Wolf The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Narrated by Brian Jacques with a Brand, Max. Brilliance Audio. Bronté, Anne. full cast recording. Read by Jim Bond. Jane Eyre A Room With a View A Widow for One Bronté, Charlotte. Forster, E.M.. Big Ben Audio, dist. by Penton Irving, John. Recorded Books. Wuthering Heights Overseas. Read by Wanda McCaddon. Read by George Guidall. Bronté, Emily. Sarny, A Life Remembered Penguin Audiobooks. Read by Prunella Paulsen, Gary. Recorded Books. Scales, Samuel West, Joanna David, Juliet Read by Lynne Thigpen. Stevenson. Abridged. Do They Hear You When You Cry? Kassindja, Fauziya. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio. Read by Sheryl Lee Ralph. Abridged. Esau Kerr, Philip. Books On Tape. Read by Geoffrey Howard. Fools of Fortune Trevor, William. Chivers North America. Read by Dermot Crowley. Carr McLean In Patagonia Chatwin, Bruce. Chivers North America. b/w Read by Christian Rodska. Keep the Aspidistra Flying Ozwell, George. Sterling, Chivers North America. Read by Michael Kitchen. The MasterHarzper of Pern McCaffrey, Anne. Brilliance Corp. Read by Dick Hill. Le Morte d’Arthur Malory, Sir Thomas. HighBridge Company. Read by Derek Jacobi. Abridged. Native Son Wright, Richard. Harper Audio. Read by James Earl Jones. Abridged.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 25 Audiobook Producers & Distributors Audio Book Contractors, Inc. Dove Audio (see Penguin USA) Putnam Berkley Group Classic Books on Cassettes Dual Dolphin 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014 PO Box 40115, Washington, PO Box 195008, Winter Springs, FL 32719 (212) 366-2430 DC 20016-0115 (202) 363-3429 (800) 336-5746 Fax: (888) 695-6601 Random House Audio Audio Bookshelf Fiction Works 201 E. 50th St., New York, NY 10022 174 Prescott Hill Rd., Northport, ME 04849 PO Box 5363, Lake Tahoe, NV 89449 (800) 733-3000 (800) 234-1713 (207) 338-1713 (888) 902-9700 Fax: (888) 588-4144 Reader’s Chair Audio-Forum www.fictionworks.com PO Box 2626, Hollister, CA 95024 Jeffrey Norton Publishers Inc. G.K. Hall Audio Inc. (see Chivers Audio) (800) 616-1350 (408) 636-1296 96 Broad St., Guilford, CT 06437-2635 Greathall Productions Email: [email protected] (800) 243-1234 (203) 453-9794 PO Box 813, Benicia, CA 94510 Recorded Books Inc. Fax: (203) 453-9774 (800) 477-6234 (707) 745-6234 270 Skipjack Rd., Prince Frederick, MD Audio Literature Harper Audio Inc. 20678 (800) 638-1304 Fax: (301)535-5499 370 W. San Bruno Ave., Ste.F, San Bruno, 10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022. River Music CA 94066. (800) 383-0174 (212) 207-7000 Route 175, Blue Hill Falls, ME 04615 (415) 583-9700 Fax: (415) 583-0235 HighBridge Audiobooks (207) 374-2208 Fax: (207) 374-2082 Audio Partners Inc. (Books on Cassette) 1000 Westgate Dr., St. Paul, MN 55114 Rivertree Productions P.O. Box 6930, Auburn, CA 95604 (612) 659-3700 Fax: (612) 659-4495 PO Box 410, Bradford, NH 03221 (800) 231-4261 Fax: (916) 888-7805 High Windy Audio (800) 554-1330 (603) 938-5120 Audio Renaissance PO Box 553, Fairview, NC 28730 Fax: (603) 938-5616 5858 Wilshire Blvd., Ste.205, (704) 628-1728 Fax: (704) 628-4435 Scheherazade Audio Visions Los Angeles, CA 90036. (213) 939-1840 ISIS Publishing Tel/Fax: (718) 253-8116 Fax: (213) 939-6436 PO Box 195758, Winter Springs, FL Email: [email protected] Audio Scholar Inc. 32719-5758 (800) 523-4773 Simon & Schuster Audioworks 10375 Nichols Lane, PO Box 1456, Email: [email protected] 1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, Mendocine, CA 95460. (707) 937-1225 JimCin Recordings NY 10020 (201) 767-5000 Audioscope/K-Tel International PO Box 536, Portsmouth, RI 02871 SoundBooks Publishing Group (USA) Inc. (800) 538-3034 Fax: (401) 849-0610 310 Greenwich St., 22nd Fl., New York, NY 2605 Fernbrook Lane N., Leo Productions 10013 (212) 766-9676 Fax: (212)406-1892 Plymouth, MN 55447 PO Box 1333, Portland, OR 97207 Sound Horizons Audio Video August House Audio (503) 497-9163 Publishing Inc. PO Box 3223, Little Rock, AR 72203 Listening Library 250 W. 57th St., Ste.1527, (800) 282-8784 One Park Ave., Old Greenwich, CT 06870 New York, NY 10107. (212) 956-6235 B & B Audio (800) 243-4504 Fax: (800) 454-0606 Fax: (212) 586-2420 3175 Commercial Ave., Ste.1078, Merlyn’s Pen Inc. Soundlines Entertainment Northbrook, IL 60062 PO Box 1058, E. Greenwich, RI 02818 10573 W. Pico Blvd, #821, Los Angeles, (847) 562-9516 Fax: (847) 562-9517 (800) 247-2027 (401) 885-5175 CA 90064 (310) 452-3305 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Fax: (401) 885-5222 Fax: (310) 452-3505 Publishing The Mind’s Eye Soundelux Audio Publishing 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 Box 1060, Petaluma, CA 94953 37 Commercial Blvd., Novato, CA 9494 (800) 223-6834 (800) 227-2020. Sound Travel Ideas Inc. Blackstone Audiobooks Minnesota Historical Society Press PO Box 10997, Scottsdale, PO Box 969, Ashland, OR 97520 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul, AZ 85271-0997 (602) 990-0502 (800) 729-2665 Fax: (541) 482-9294 MN 55102-1906 (800) 647-7827 Spencer Library (see Dual Dolphin) (see ISIS) Bolinda Audio (612) 297-3243 Spoken Arts Inc. Books In Motion Naxos Audiobooks Dept. F, P.O. Box 289, New Rochelle, NY E. 9212 Montgomery, Ste.501, Spokane, Naxos of America, 416 Mary Lindsay Polk 10802 (800) 537-3617 Fax: (914)636-1539 WA 99206 (800) 752-3199 Books On Tape Inc. Dr., Ste.509, Franklin, TN 37067-2681 Sterling Audio (see Chivers Audio Books) PO Box 7900, Newport Beach, CA 92658 The New Press Sunset Productions (800) 626-3333 Fax: (714) 548-6574 Fund for Independent Publishing 369 Montezuma, Ste.416, Santa Fe, Brilliance Corporation 450 W. 41st St., New York, NY 10109 NM 87501. (800) 829-5723 1704 Eaton Drive, PO Box 887, (212) 629-8802 Fax: (212) 268-6349 Tangled Web Audio Grand Haven, Ml 49417 NorthWord Press 3380 Sheridan Dr., Ste.167, Amherst, NY (800) 222-3225 (616) 846-5256 PO Box 1360, Minoequa, WI 54548 14226 (519) 442-5010 Fax: (519)442-2346 Buckingham Classics (800) 336-5666 Time-Warner Audiobooks P.O. Box 597441, Chicago, IL 60659 Parrot Audio Books 1271 Ave. of the Americas, 11th Fl., (312) 338-7407 46Z50 Fremont Blvd., Ste.207, Fremont, CA New York, NY 10020. (212) 522-7123 Cathedral Audio Books 94538 (510)656-5808 Fax:(510) 656-4644 Fax: (212) 522-7994 341 Beirut Ave., Pacific Pal., CA 90272 Penguin Audiobooks Walt Disney Records (800) 323-3379 Fax: (310) 281-3777 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014 350 S. Buena Vista, Burbank, Chivers North America (212) 366-2272 CA 91521-06233 (818) 973-4377 1 Lafayette Rd., Box 1450, Hampton, Penton Overseas Writer’s Audioshop NH 03843-1450 (800) 621-0182 2470 Impala Drive, Carlsbad, 204 E. 35th St., Austin, TX 78705-1611 Commuter’s Library CA 92008-7226 (800) 748-5804 (800) 88WRITE (512) 476-1616 PO Box 3168, Falls Church, VA 22043 (619) 431-0060 Fax: (619) 431-8110 ZBS Foundation (800) 228-3462 Email: [email protected] RR#1 Box 1201, Fort Edward, NY 12828 Dercum Audio (see Chivers Audio Books) The Publishing Mills (800) 662-3345 Fax: (518) 695-6406 dhaudio PO Box 481006, Los Angeles, CA 90048 Ziplow Productions 2221 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, (800) 72-AUDIO PO Box 7765, Hilton Head Island, NY 14304 (800) 962-5200 SC 29938. (888) 717-2434 (716) 731-9177 Fax: (716) 731-9180 www.ziplow.com

26 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. International Conference on Thinking Bibliography from the Eighth International Conference on Thinking, July 1999, Edmonton, AB Caine, Geoffrey & Caine, Renate Fogarty, Robin Nolan, Mary Education on the Edge of Possibility. Best Practices for the Learner-Centred The Learning Success Kit. 0-7872-0577-X. 0-87120-282-4. Classroom. 0-93293593-1. Perkins, David Making Connections: Teaching & the Human Brain Compatible Classroom. Culture of Thinking. 0-205-16508-7. Brain. 0-201-49088-9. 1-57517-044-2. How to Teach Transfer, Grades K-12. MindShifts: A Brain-Based Process for Fullan, Michael 0-932935-41-9. Restructuring Schools. 1-56976-091-8. Change Forces. 1-85000826. Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of The Re-Enchantment of Learning: A Manual Change Forces: The Sequel. 0-7507-0755. Learning Intelligence. 0-02-925212-1. for Teacher Renewal. 1-56976-076-4. Productive Educational Change. Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Carpenter, Jill 0-85000-826-4. Educating Minds. 0-02-874-018-1. The Open-Book Management Fieldbook. The Rise & Stall of Teacher Education Reform. Techniques for Teaching Thinking with 0-47T-18036-X. 0-89333-159-7. Dr. Robert Swartz. 0-89455-378-X. The Power of Open-Book Management: Successful School Improvement. The Thinking Classroom: Learning & Releasing the True Potential of Peoples Minds. 0-335-09575-5. Teaching in a Culture of Thinking. 0-47113287-X. What’s Worth Fighting For Out There? 0-205-16508-7. Costa, Arthur 0-8077-3752-6. Thinking Connections: Learning to Think & Assessment in the Learning Organization. What’s Worth Fighting For in Principalship? Thinking to Learn. 0-201-81998-8. 0-8712-0250. 0-8077-3705-4. Sternberg, Robert Developing Minds. 0-8712-0181 What’s Worth Fighting for In Your School? How to Develop Student Creativity. Envisioning Process as Content. 0-8077-3554-X. 0-87120-265-4. 0-8039-6310-6. Gardner, Howard Off Track: When Poor Readers Become If Minds Matter: Vol.1. 0-932935-36-2. Arts & Human Development. “Learning Disabled”. 0-8133-8757-4. If Minds Matter: Vol.11. 0-932935-36-2. 0-465-00440-7. Perspectives on Learning Disabilities. The Process Centred School: Sustaining a Ren- Creating Minds. 0-465-01454-2. 0-8133-3176-5. aissance Community. 0-8039-6314-9. Disciplined Minds. 0-684-84324-2. Successful Intelligence. 0-684-81410-2. The School as Home for the Mind. Extraordinary Minds. 0-465-02125-5. Teaching For Thinking. 1-55798-375-5. 0-932935-33-8. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Thinking Styles. 0-521-65713-X. Supporting the Spirit of Learning: When lntelligences. 0-465-02510-2. Swartz, Robert Process is Content. 0-8039-6312-2. Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership. Evaluating Critical Thinking with Norris & de Bono, Edward 0-465-08280-7. Ennis. 0-89455-380-1. deBono’s Thinking Course. 0-8160-3178-9. Mindscience: An East-West Dialogue. Infusing the Teaching of Critical & Creative Edward deBono’s Mindpack. 0-86171-066-5. Thinking into Secondary Science: A Lesson 1-56458-864-5. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice. Handbook with Sandra Parks. Edward deBono’s Textbook of Wisdom. 0-465-01822-X. 0-89455-703-3. 0-14-025838-8. What is Creativity: Selections from MIT Press. Infusing Lessons: Teaching Critical & How to Be More Interesting. 2 Cassettes. 1-879557-41 -X. Creative Thinking in Language Arts, Grades 0-14-025837-X. Hyerle, David 5-6, with Mary Anne Kiser. 0-89455-7335. Infusing the Teaching of Critical Thinking into MasterThinker 2: Six Thinking Hats. Visual Tools for Constructing Knowledge. Elementary Instruction: A Lesson Design 2 cassettes. 0-7871-0709-3. 0-87120-266-2. MasterThinker 4: Six Thinking Hats. Handbook. 0-89455-481-6. Jonassen, David Techniques for Teaching Thinking with David 4 cassettes. 0-7871-1016-7. Computers as Mindtools for Schools. Parallel Thinking: From Socratic to deBono’s Perkins. 0-89455-378-X. 1013-080709-5. Sylvester, Robert Thinking. 0-14-023076-9. Computers in the Classroom: Mindtools for Simplicity. 0-670-87012-9. Emotion & Attention: How Our Brain Critical Thinking. 0-02-361191 -X. Determines What’s Important. Six Thinking Hats. 0-14-022796-2. Task Analysis Methods for Instructional Teach Your Child How to Think. 1-56976-083-7. Design. 0-8058-3086-3. Memory: Acquiring, Editing, Recalling, 0-14-023830-1. Loranger, Paul Teach Yourself to Think. 0-0142-3077-7. Forgetting. 1-56976-082-9. The Creator’s Signature. 10-96960-842. Teaching Thinking. 0-14-013785-8. Student Brains, School Issues. Mahbubani, Kishore Donley, Jeffrey 1-57517-046-9. Can Asians Think? 9-181204-9681. Visions & Values. 0-8281-0681-9. Wagner, Norman Meir, Ben Hur Edwards, John Chaos to Wisdom. 0-9683-5720. On Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment. Advice for Audrey: How to Teach Primary Wheatley, Margaret 0-932935-76-1. Children. Illustrated by J. Edwards. Written Leadership & the New Science: Learning by Karen Archer. 0-9697941-0-X. Mezirow, Jack About Organization. 1-881052-01-X. Keating: The Inside Story. 0-14-026601-1. Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood. Leadership & The New Science Multilingualism. 0-14-015951-7. 1-55542-20. 2 Cassettes. 1-57453-017-8. Transformative Dimensions of Adult A Simpler Way. 1-57675-050-7. Learning. 1-5542-339. A Simpler Way. 2 Cassettes. 1-57453-053-4.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 27 Websites of Interest to Teacher Librarians Acceptable Use Policies The Difference Between Subject & LibrarySpot www.netc.org/tech_plans/aup.html Keywords www.libraryspot.com American Association of School www.open.k12.or.us/oslis/tutorials/strate- Designed to bring the best library and ref- Librarians (AASL) gies/searching.html#subject erence sites together. Includes links to general www.ala.org/aasl An excellent explanation of subject and key- reference tools, journals, magazines, newspa- American Library Association (ALA) word searching is found at the Wilson High pers, library catalogues. www.ala.org School Search Tutorial. LibrarySpot Newsletter Association for Educational Com- Directory of Online Resources for www.libraryspot.com/newsletter.htm munications & Technology (AECT) Information Literacy Free periodic email newsletter filled with the www.aect.org www.cas.usf.edu/lis/il/ hottest library and reference resources. Association for Library Services to This directory provides links to organiza- Read Up on It Children (ALSC) tions and major projects, papers and presen- National Library of Canada selection lists, www.ala.org/alsc tations, academic programs, and other sites. promotional materials, etc. Association for Supervision and Includes an excellent overview (with links) www1.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/ruoi/eruoi/htm Curriculum Development (ASCD) of the information literacy process, covering Research & Critical Thinking www.ascd.org such topics as: www.execpc.com/~dboals/think.html Association for Teacher Librarian- · locating information; critical thinking; School Librarian Web Pages ship in Canada (ATLC) evaluating sources; plagiarism; and citing http://wombat.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/ www.sbe.saskatoon.sk.ca/~atlc/index.html what you find. ~pmilbury/lib.html Bellingham Schools Online They also provide: most useful definitions of School Libraries in Canada Information Literacy Course information literacy and; competence; media, uviclib.uvic.ca/csla/slic.html www.bham.wednet.edu/literacy.htm computer, and visual literacy; and life-long School Library Hot spots Big 6 Skills and resource-based learning. www.mbnet.mb.ca/~mstimson/text/ www.big6.com or http://big6.syr.edu Exploring the World Wide Web hotspots.html Booklist www.gactr.uga.edu/exploring/index.html School Library Links: The All-In- www.ala.org/booklist From Now On: The Educational One Resource Guide for School Li- Evaluation and selection of resources. Technology Journal brarians and Teachers Canadian School Library Assn. http://fromnowon.org/mostrecent.html www.flatlandcenter.com/~cyberian/ www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/ Handbook for Storytellers School Library Media Research 1333/csla.htm http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature storyhandbook.htm AASL’s referred research journal exclusively Site Practical advice for storytellers on choosing, On the World Wide Web. www.carolhurst.com learning and telling a story. Searching the “Net” Checklist for Informational Web ICONnect Technology Initiative www.teleport.com/~janetm/oii/ Page www.ala.org/ICONN search.html www.science.widener.edu/~withers/ Get connected to learning using the Internet. Successful Web Search Strategies inform.htm Online Courses, Curriculum Connections, http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ Child Safety on the Information KidsConnect and FamiliesConnect. neccsrch/searchingnecc2/sld01.html Highway Information Power Teacher Librarian (the journal) www.4j.lane.edu/safety/ www.ala.org/aasl/ip_nine.html www.rockland.com Children’s Literature Web Guide International Reading Assn. (IRA) Thinking critically about World www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown www.ira.org Wide Web Resources Citing Internet Resources Internet Island www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/in- Launch to Citing Online Addresses www.miamisci.org/ii/ii0.html struct/web/critical.htm www.pitsco.com/p/cite.html Learning Through the Library UK Authors of Childrens & YA APA Style of Electronic Citation www.ala.org/aasl/learning Books www.uvm.edu/-xli/reference/apa.html Best practices and resources to integrate in- www.achuka.co.uk/profilio.htm Guide for Citing Electronic Information formation literacy throughout the curriculum. A super link for info on titles and authors www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/library/ Librarians Information Online Network. from across the water. citing/htm

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School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 29 Book Related Websites Nine Websites for Arts & Letters Daily Children’s Literature and Language Cdn. History www.cybereditions.com/daily Arts Resources 1. Oh Canada! Canadian History on the AtoZebra falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm Internet Literature-based activities. www.atozebra.com/ www.macabees.ab.ca/canada/canhist.html Online version of magazine full of book re- CM Magazine A good place to start your walk through views and resources to help integrate chil- www.umanitoba.ca/cm/index.html Canadian history. dren’s literature into the curriculum. Reviews Canadian picture books, fiction, vid- 2. Avro Arrow Home Page Authors and Illustrators on the Web eos. www.totavia.com/arrow www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Fairrosa Cyber Library Information about tHe famous Canadian jet www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/ interceptor airplane that was reputedly ahead of authors.html its time, but dismantled under the Diefendbaker Links to all kinds of children’s authors’ web Roxanne Hsu Feldman’s celebration of chil- government. pages. dren’s literature, with everything from authors 3. Canadian Veterans Recollect Award Winning Children’s Books and illustrators to reviews and discussions. www.schoolnet.ca/collections/audio/ awardbooks.hypermart.n Haring Kids welcome.htm Hypermart site offering annotations on “best” www.haringkids.com/ Canadian veterans who fought in World War I. books Keith Haring’s site bringing together books and 4. Women in Canadian History Bestseller List the arts for kids 14 and younger. www.niagara.com/-merrwill www.bookwire.com/pw/bsl/childrens/ Internet Public Library Resource for students, teachers. current.childrens.html www.ipl.org/youth/HomePage.html 5. CRB Foundation Heritage Project Publishes weekly current statistics. The “youth division” of IPL offering links to http://heritage.excite.sfu.ca Book Talks books online. 6. History Television www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/ Just for Kids Who Love Books www.historytelevision.ca rundlett/booktalks/ www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/ Website for the Canadian History Television 1333/kids.htm Channel. Over 600 booktalks intended to be used by 7. Klondike Visitors Association Children’s books and authors, including re- teacher librarians and teachers; searchable by www.hyperborean-web.com/kva author and title. views, forums and response pages. Dawson City Tourism Board site. Books Every Child Should Read KidLit 8. Canada’s Prime Ministers homearts.com/depts/relat/bookintr.htm mgfx.com/Kidlit/ http://cnet.unb/.ca/achn/pm Contemporary authors who are making their Online work by kids for kids. Biographies of the 20 former prime ministers of mark in the field of children’s books. MysteryNet Canada. Bookwire www.mysterynet. com 9. On This Day www.bookwire.com/links/readingroom/ National Center for Children’s Illus- www1.sympatico.ca/cti-bin/on_this_day echildbooks.html trated Literature Provides a daily perspective of historical figures Guide to electronic children’s books online. www.nccil.org/home.html Based in and events that shaped Canada. Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Texas. Books Netsurfer Books National Atlas edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/bccb/ www.netsurf.com/nsb Condensed online version of the subscription- Needle in a Cyberstack of Canada based periodical cyber-library. home.revealed.net/albee/pages/ http://atlas.gc.ca/ Caldecott Medal Site (ALA site) Books.html A great resource for Social Studies or Ge- www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html Book site navigator designed to make finding ography teachers and students. Examples Canadian Children’s Book Centre titles on the Web easier. are: Carto Corner, Geographical Names, Earth home.echo-on.net/-ccbc Newbery Medal Page (ALA site) Net, National Atlas of Canada, and many Cdn. Children’s Literature Service www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html others. A search function and FAQ’s are also www.nlc-bnc.ca/services/eclsc.htm Publisher’s Weekly part of the site. Book lists prepared by the National Library Current information on children’s book sales by category: picture books, fiction, non-fiction, board of Canada. books and series. Early Canadiana Cdn. Society of Children’s Authors, Scholastic Illustrators and Performers place.scholastic.com/ Free access. On-Line www.interlog.com/-canscaip/ Teachers and Librarians Page Canada’s Printed Heritage Via Internet Provides Canadian author information. www.cbcbooks.org/navigation/ www.canadiana.org Carol Hurst’s Literature Site teaindex.htm To date, the full text of some 2,600 books www.carolhurst.com/index.html The Children’s Book Councils page. and pamphlets originally published between Book reviews, practical literature extension TheCase the 16th and early 20th centuries have been ideas, themes and professional resources. www.TheCase.com scanned and are now available on the Children’s Literature Web Guide TheCase.com for Kids Internet. Subject areas include Canadian lit- www.acs.ucalgary.ca//-dkbrown/ theCase.com/kids erature, women’s history, travel and explo- Useful connections to author, award winners The Center for the Book in the ration, the history of French Canada and and children’s literature resources. Library of Congress native studies. Children’s Literature Web Guide lcweb.loc.gov/loc/cfbook www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ The New York Times: Books Compare Your Nation index.html www.nytimes.com/books/home www.your-nation.com Books, awards, authors, resources, lessons The Scoop Compares two countries or regions world- and ideas for the classroom. www.friend.ly.net/scoop/ wide, of your choice, from drop-down Books, reviews, links and activity ideas pre- menus on a host of categories and then dis- sented with teachers in mind. plays them in bar graphs.

30 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Community Learning Network CLN Theme Pages are a mix of links providing practical suggestions from teachers, and links to Earthquakes Theme Page curricular content (e.g., information, tutorials, web sites that support the lesson plans - includ- www.cln.org/themes/earthquakes.html lessons) with web sites that offer instructional ing one to the host MysteryNet.com. materials (e.g., lesson plans, advice for teachers, Music Heritage Network Electricity Theme Page tips, etc.). Theme Pages are very focused so that www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/ www.cln.org/themes/electricity.html every link on the page should be useful to you. index.html Endangered Species Theme Page CLN Theme Pages: Intended for educators, musicians, students, www.cln.org/themes/endangered.html Mapping MHN provides multicultural resources spun Genetics Theme Page around musical themes. Students can take ‘vir- www.cln.org/themes/genetics.html www.cln.org/themes/mapping.html tual tours’ to explore cultures through words, Links to 26 great sites all in one place. These in- images and sound (e.g., Indonesian Gamelan, Global Warming Theme Page clude sources of electronic maps, tutorials (e.g., Salsa). In addition, they can investigate the his- www.cln.org/themes/global_warming.html on mapping skills, history of cartography), a tory of musical instruments in the Instrument Hunting Jobs Theme Page metalist site, teaching units, lesson plans, and Encyclopedia which has articles on more than www.cln.org/themes/hunting_jobs.html mapping activities. You can reach the theme page 140 instruments. Associated web links, real au- at the above URL, or through our: dio and .aiff sound files are included for selected Hurricanes Theme Page Collection of Social Studies sites entries. www.cln.org/themes/hurricanes.html www.cln.org/subjects/socials.html New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Inventors and Inventions Theme Page Speaking of Social Studies, here are two more SS Archives: Fine Arts www.cln.org/themes/inventors.html resources. We added the first to our: www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/les- Lightning Theme Page Medieval Theme Page sons/finearts.html www.cln.org/themes/lightning.html www.cln.org/themes/medieval.html Each day, the NY Times develops a lesson plan Medieval Studies Theme Page and the second to our theme page on keyed to one or more of the stories in the news- www.cln.org/themes/medieval.html Sustainable Development paper. This link is to the fine arts section of their Oceanography Theme Page www.cln.org/themes/sustainable_dev.html lesson plan archives. You’ll have to search through the collection for the lessons in music, www.cln.org/themes/oceanography.html Europe in the Middle Ages for example “Sounds of Science” (gr. 6-12) and Origami Theme Page www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/ “Music Theories” (Gr. 6-12). In addition to the www.cln.org/themes/origami.html lessons/498EuropeMidAges.htm link to the NY Time article(s), the plans generally Rocks, Miner als and Mining Theme Page This integrated teaching unit has 8 lessons in- also identify web resources which support the tended for students in grades 4/5. Social studies lesson. www.cln.org/themes/rocks_minerals.html topics cover geography, feudalism, chivalry, Nor- Preserving Art as a Record of the Shakespeare Theme Page man Conquest, growth of towns, England, and Times www.cln.org/themes/shakespeare.html plagues. The language arts focus is on myths and www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/les- Stories, Folklore & Fairytales Theme Page legends. sons/981001thursday.html www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html Energy Matters In this lesson plan, grade 6-12 students examine Volcanoes Theme Page http://library.advanced.org/20331/ the relationship between art and society using www.cln.org/themes/volcanoes.html This Think Quest 98 award winning site provides Native American art and a New York Times arti- Water Quality Theme Page information to students about the different meth- cle as a starting point. ods of energy production currently in use or in www.cln.org/themes/water.html research. In addition, it discusses the history of Music Curriculum energy’s influence on man, presents how energy www.cln.org/subjects/music_cur.html For a list of the 100+ theme pages, go to is currently being used, and introduces energy Music Instructional Materials www.cln.org/themes_index.html from a physics point of view. Also an interactive www.cln.org/subjects/music_inst.html game and public message board at the site. Art History Theme Page Media Theme Page www.cln.org/themes/art_history.html www.cln.org/themes/ Multiculturalism Page Tammy’s Tidbits media_advertising.html www.cln.org/subjects/mc_cur.html www.cln.org/subjects/media_inst.html. http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/ Messages and Meanings Other Theme Pages: educ.html This site is like having your own internet www.nando.net/prof/edsvc/teach/niecurric/ Hot Air Balloons Theme Page resource guide!! It includes such topics as: messages.html www.cln.org/themes/hot_balloons.html Over a dozen student activity sheets that teach- Arts & Crafts, Children’s Literature, Geogra- ers can adapt for use in a unit on media studies. Kites Theme Page phy, Government (US mostly), P.E. and There are four themes: Accessing Media Mes- www.cln.org/themes/kites.html Health, Holidays, Languages, Mathematics, sages; Analyzing Media Messages; Evaluating Paper Airplane Theme Page Newspapers, Online Projects, Puzzles & Media Messages; and Communicating Media www.cln.org/themes/paper_airplanes.html Messages. Games, References, Search Engines, Science, Convince Me Instructional Materials in Canadian Studies Social Studies and Technology. Also included www.cln.org/subjects/can- www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/view/ are teacher resources and lesson plans, web studies_inst.html graphics, motivational links, poem pages, convince.html This brand new page provides links to teaching In this lesson plan, grade 4-6 students look for computer calendars, and freebies. resources in Canadian studies. The Puzzles and Games section included and analyze ads. Canadian Law MysteryNet.com links to sites which allowed you to make your www.cln.org/subjects/law_cur.html own word puzzles for your students. Handy www.MysteryNet.com/ I used to have a page on Law in general which A wide ranging set of information on mysteries I’ve refocused to “Canadian Law”. Some links for those weekly Spelling lists!! both within the site itself and/or through exter- from that old site remain, but there’s quite a few Tammy’s Tidbits is hosted by Tammy Bushey nal links. Students have their choice of daily and new resources as well. and is suitable for students in grades K-12. weekly mini-mysteries, interactive mysteries (soap style), discussion areas (e.g., on famous Ask an Expert Permission is granted to redistribute the above authors, famous characters, TV mysteries), book www.cln.org/int_expert.html message provided that credit is given to Network reviews, and writing contests. Teachers will also There’s now over 80 links to sites that provide Nugget Listserve and no fees are charged. Net- find a collection of lesson plans. an “ask an expert” service to students and teach- work Nuggets is a free service of the Commu- Learning with Mysteries ers. These are organized by subject area. nity Learning Network (www.cln.org/) and www.mysterynet.com/learn/ Bubbles Theme Page Open School (www.openschool.bc.ca/). In addition to six lesson plans on using myster- www.cln.org/themes/bubbles.html Network Nuggets Archives ies in the classroom, this site has a discussion www.cln.org/lists/nuggets/home.html Dinosaurs Theme Page Subscribe/unsub Info on how mysteries can contribute to skills within www.cln.org/themes/dinosaur.html Bloom’s taxonomy, a forum for discussion and www.cln.org/lists/nuggets/subscribe.html

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 31 Canadian School Library Buying Clipart & Stock Photos Wholesalers Arc Media The Learning Company Toronto, ON (416) 410-4429 Cambridge, MA 800-323-8088 The Children’s Book Store www.arcmedia.com www.learningco.com Toronto, ON Broderbund Software Microforum (416) 480-0233 Fax: (416) 480-9345 Novato, CA (415) 382-4400 Toronto, ON (416) 656-6406 800-265-5622 Toll free fax: 888-480-9345 www.broderbund.com www.microforum.com Email: [email protected] Byron Preiss Multimedia MostSignificantBits John Coutts Library Services Ltd. New York, NY (212) 989-6252 Avon, OH (216) 934-1385 Niagara Falls, ON www.byronpreiss.com www.msbcd.com (905) 356-6382 Fax: (905) 356-5064 Clipart for Libraries Master Series Illustration Library 800-263-1686 www.netins.net/showcase/meyers/ Provo, UT 800-641-1803 Email: [email protected] library_clipart/clipart.html www.masterseries.com Telebook I.D.: S169989X Clipart Links Online The Multimedia Library Website: www.coutts-Is.com www.cln.org/themes/clip_art.html New York, NY 800-362-4978 Jack The Bookman Ltd. Corel Corporation www.multimedialibrary.com Richmond Hill, ON Ottawa, ON (613) 728-0826 Pixar (905) 884-6177 Fax: (905) 884-2411 www.corel.com Richmond, CA (510) 236-4000 Digital Stock Corporation www.pixar.com 800-563-5168 Encinitas, CA 800-545-4514 PhotoDisc Library Bound Inc. www.digitalstock.com Seattle, Wa (206) 441-9355 Waterloo, ON Dynamic Graphics www.photodisc.com (519) 885-3233 Fax: (519) 885-2662 Peoria, IL (309) 688-8800 PhotoSphere Images 800-363-4728 Toll free fax: 800-363-4838 www.dgusa.com Vancouver, BC (604) 876-3206 Email: [email protected] Expert Software www.photosphere.com Website: www.librarybound.com Coral Gables, FL 800-759-2562; Seattle Support Group The Library Services Centre www.expertsoftware.com Kent, WA (253) 480-1001 Waterloo, ON Image Club Graphics www.ssgrp.com (519) 746-4420 Fax: (519) 746-4425 Calgary, AB (403) 262-8008 TDC Interactive 800-265-3360 www.imageclub.com Manhattan Beach, CA (310) 937-6090 Email: [email protected] Image Farm www.loop.com/-samp MacNeill Library Service Toronto, ON (416) 504-4161 Walnut Creek CD-ROM Vancouver, BC www.imagefarm.com Concord, CA 800-786-9907 (604) 732-1335 Fax: (604) 732-3765 IMSI www.cdrom.com 800-667-0177 San Rafael, CA (415) 257-3000 Wheeler Arts Email: [email protected] www.imsisoft.com Champaign, IL (217) 359-6816 National Book Service members.aol.com/quickart North York, Ottawa, London, Cambridge, Ontario, & Winnipeg 800-387-3178 Toll free fax: 800-303-6697 Email: [email protected] Books on Bullies Telebook I.D.: S1080830 Bellows, Cathy...... Four Fat Rats. 1987. Hahn, Mary Downing Website/Online Catalogues: www.nbs.com Billington, E.T...... Getting To Know Me. 1982...... Stepping on the Cracks. 1991. S&B Books Ltd. Bosch, Carl...... Bully On The Bus. 1988. Henkes, Kevin...... Chester’s Way. 1988. Mississauga, ON (905) 629-5055 Fax: (905) 629-5054 Bottner, Barbara. ... Bootsie Barker Bites. 1992. Kasza, Keiko...... Rat and the Tiger. 1993. Toll free: 800-997-7099 Illustrated by Peggy Rathman. Keats, Ezra Jack...... Goggles! 1969. Telebook I.D.: S1196014 Boyd, Lizi...... Bailey The Big Bully. 1989. Kidd, Bruce...... Hockey Showdown. 1979. Email: [email protected] Brown, Marc T...... Arthur’s April Fool. 1983. Kroll, Steven...... It’s April Fools’ Day! 1990. Website: www.sbbooks.com Browne, Anthony Little, Jean...... Jean Was The Brave One. 1991. School Book Fairs Ltd. Mississauga, ON ...... Willy The Champ. 1985. Mahy, Margaret.Boy With Two Shadows. 1987. (905) 828-6620 Fax: (905) 828-2761 Carey, Valerie S.. 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32 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. Teaching & Learning Copyright Information with Technology Organized on the WWW Apple Learning Interchange Lesson Stop http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ www.lessonstop.org/ To assist librarians, teacher-librarians, curric.shtml Subject: Teacher’s Resource. Grade Level: All teachers and administrators in understand- Subject: Teacher’s Resource. Grade Level: An excellent teacher resource. This non- ing the complexity of issues related to copy- All. This website provides teachers with the commercial site is compiled by teachers for right in Canada and the importance of copy- information needed to integrate technology teachers. Educators of all grade levels will right to teaching and learning, the Canadian into any classroom setting. Many schools find activities and lesson plans appropriate Library Association Copyright Committee has are equipped with the latest technology, but for their grade level. In addition, unlike other created a copyright link site at: sites, Lesson Stop provides instruction on are teachers putting the technology to use? www.cla.amlibs.ca/copyright.htm Check out Apple’s resource. how to plan and create lessons. New teach- The site will provide the latest information ers, stop struggling and discover the five Classroom Connect on: Revisions to Canada’s Copyright Act and www.classroom.com common mistakes in lesson plans. Take ad- vantage of the formats and templates de- regulations Position statements by associa- Click on Classroom Today for a wonderful tions and governments on copyright reform resource for your classroom. You’ll find a veloped by educators and the huge lesson Interpretations of Canadian copyright law Is- different curriculum topic each week, with plan database. special act]ivities, questions and explora- One Showcase Section sues related to digital information and media tions for students, featured each day. Programming Languages copyright, international copyright law and the GEM: The Gateway to Educational www.homeworkcentral.com/Top8/ Multilateral Agreement on Investment Col- Materials highschool1.htp?sectionid=8596 lectives and performing rights societies. Read- ings and writings on Canadian, American and www.thegateway.org There are sixteen languages covered in this A consortium effort to provide educators newly revised subsection of Homework Cen- International copyright. with quick an easy access to the substan- tral’s Computer Sciences collection. Addi- tial collections of educational materails tional languages and resources are included found on various federal, state, university, under Reference in the section. Homework Cancopy Website Central, Homework Central Jr., and Encyclo- non-profit and commercial websites. These www.cancopy.com/copyright/internet.html pedia Central are the biggest academic re- resources (including lesson plans, activities, This site contains links to a wide variety of ask-a-services and projects) can be browsed search sites on the internet. Together, they comprise a huge, online, 400,000 link, 1.4 topics, sites and resources dealing with copy- by subject, keyword or grade level, or right legislation, the Cancopy collective, gov- searched by subject, keyword, title, or full- million-page academic research directory ernment sites as well as international sites text of the resource’s catalogue record. designed exclusively for the use of students, with information on international copyright Global Schoolhouse teachers, and instructors from elementary school right through college levels. These agreements. www.globalschoolhouse.org/join hand-picked links provide access to specific Free software. Check out this URL to sign information and research sources covering up for free software. The Global Schoolhouse thousands of school subjects. The list is is owned and operated by the Global compiled by the editors of Homework Cen- Search Engine Watch Schoolnet Foundations (GSN), a 501(c)(3) tral, Homework Central Jr., and Encyclope- non-profit, public service corporation. The dia Central, located at www.nosweat.com http://searchenginewatch.com organization provides meaningful opportu- Teaching and Learning With tutorials, reviews, articles, a glos- nities for schools, teachers, parents and sary and more, the “Search Engine Watch” www.rockyview.ab.ca/bpeak/galileo/tlt/ students to use the internet for teaching website is a great place to learn the basics and learning. Membership in the Global tlt.html Not sure how to integrate Information Tech- of Internet searching or to find out what’s Schoolhouse is FREE by registering. Choose new in the complex world of search engines software from a variety of selections. Pay nology into your other curriculum areas? and directories. only shipping and handling to receive the This site gives you those answers. Various software at a fraction of the retail price, grade activities K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 all con- If you’re developing your own web pages, while contributing to the Global SchoolNet tain lessons devleoped to integrate other you’ll want to pay special attention to the Foundation. subjects with Info Tech. Each of the lessons section of the above site called “Webmas- Learning Space: Integrating contain the following headings: Setting the ter’s Guide to the Search Engines”. There’s Stage, Student Tasks and Assignments, Re- the Internet information here that will help you build a sources, and Assessment Rubrics. web page that won’t be missed by the ma- www.learningspace.org/instruct/ This site would be useful for any teacher jor search engines. instruct.html who wants ideas on integrating technol- Has resources and ideas for ways to use ogy into other subject areas. The assess- the web as a “tool” in the classroom, clas- ments show a great deal of thought and Canada.com sified by grade level and subject area. The experience in teaching these various top- site focusses on the steps required for an ics. www.canada.com effective internet research project, with links Teaching and Learning with Technology is Finally! For a search engine with a Ca- that describe an effective web-based re- hosted by the Calgary Regional Consortium nadian focus try “Canada.com”. It finds search process in a step-by-step format. and is suitable for students in grades K-12. sites from any location on the web with the added feature of a flag to identify those Canadian sites that are of special interest to those of us live here.

School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. 33 Cataloguing Resources Cataloguing Code Released Revised Consolidation of The School on CD AACR Released Library The co-publishers of AACR, the Canadian The co-publishers of AACR, the Canadian Library Association, American Library Asso- Library Association, American Library Asso- Manifesto ciation, and Library Association (U.K.), are ciation and Library Association (U.K.), are pleased to announce the release of AACRe, pleased to announce the release of Anglo- The School Library Manifesto, the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Sec- American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, ond Edition, 1998 Revision, Electronic Ver- modelled on the very successful Public 1998. sion 1.0 on CD-ROM. AACRe runs in Library Manifesto (a 1994 UNESCO FolioVIEWS hypertext software. Users can Revision document), was approved by UNESCO create notes, highlight key text, save groups The publication of the 1998 Revision coin- at the December 1998 meeting of the of related topics for ready reference, and save cides with a major new development in the Programme General de l’Information in all these in future editions. Improve catalogu- history of AACR2: this revision is published Paris, France. ing productivity! concurrently in print and electronic form. (A Users can easily: separate release will outline the features of The educational and cultural sectors · Jump to particular rules with keyword or AACRe.) of UNESCO are also involved, as the rule-number searches. The first consolidated revision of AACR2R manifesto affects the pedagogical and · Access and display related rules either in in ten years incorporates the group of revi- cultural (literacy, information literacy, sequence or simultaneously in multiple sions previously published as Amendments windows. promotion of reading) concerns of · Search the Table of Contents and jump 1993 and additional revisions approved by the member states. The original document straight from it to any rule. Joint Steering Committee for Revision of comes from the International Federa- · View the Table of Contents and text AACR between 1992 and 1996. tion of Library Associations and Insti- These previously unpublished revisions are simultaneously in side-by-side windows. tutions (IFLA), as designed by the mem- · Limit a search to specific chapters or also listed separately in the front matter. In subheads, or expand it to all of AACR. addition, the index has been completely re- bers of the School Library Section of Like its print counterpart published simul- vised to reflect all amendments and to cor- IFLA and endorsed by the IFLA Profes- taneously, AACRe incorporates the group of rect errors in the previous edition. sional Board. revisions previously published as Amend- The AACR2 1998 Revision is available in The manifesto is a statement of prin- ments 1993 and additional revisions approved Canada exclusively through CLA and in the ciples on the importance and role of the by the Joint Steering Committee for Revision United States and Mexico exclusively through of AACR between 1992 and 1996. school library in the development of a the American Library Association. These previously unpublished revisions are country. It establishes the school library Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second also listed separately. as an essential force in the economic Edition, 1998 Revision Joint Steering Com- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second development of a country. In its pre- mittee for Revision of AACR Ralph Manning, Edition, 1998 Revision is also available in a amble it states: consolidated edition in paperback and hard- Chair. cover. AACRe and Anglo-American Catalogu- December 1998. xli, 676 pp. appendices, “The school library provides ing Rules, Second Edition, 1998 Revision print index. ISBN 0-88802-282-4. $75.00 paper- information and ideas that are edition are available in Canada exclusively back. Item code: CB-3485-4A. fundamental to functioning success- through the Canadian Library Association and ISBN 0-88802-284-0. $110.00 cloth. Item fully in today’s information and in the United States and Mexico exclusively code: CB-3486-2A. knowledge-based society. The school through the American Library Association. Platform/hardware requirements: library equips students with life-long Windows 3.x, Windows 95 or Windows NT. For more information or to learning skills and develops the Runs on minimum configuration of 80386/ obtain a review copy of either imagination, enabling them to live as 25PC with 4MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, and the CD or book, contact: responsible citizens.” 7MB free hard disk space. Elizabeth Morton, CLA Recommended minimum configuration: Each country can and should develop 80486/33PC with 8MB RAM. VGA or SVGA (613) 232-9625, ext. 322 its own principles and recommenda- colour monitor required. No additional soft- Fax: (613) 563-9895 tions regarding the existence of school ware needed! Email: [email protected] libraries based on the manifesto. It Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, 1998 Revision. 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34 School Libraries in Canada. Sources 1999. The Role of District Resource Centers Developed by Vancouver Island and Design & Production of District Resource Centre Facilities Southern Interior District Resource Cen- Learning Resources The Resource Centre should be tre Coordinators (British Columbia, Media to be used within the instruc- designed to encourage the effective Canada). Produced in cooperation with tional framework are determined by the circulation and use of educational PIMA (Pacific Instructional Media Asso- requirements of learning outcomes, resources throughout the school district. ciation). course content and instructional meth- Mission Statement The following is a summary statement odology. Non-print materials can be District Resource Centres and their from The Role of District Resource Cen- obtained from commercial sources or staffs provide students and educators tres. The entire document can be found produced locally. on their website at: with cost effective, equitable district- www.sd79.bc.ca/eduserv/ Information Technology wide access to learning resources and sd79home.html District Resource Centres personnel services through evaluating, acquiring, have the ability to promote the use of managing and promoting these Summary of Document technology and investigate new resources. resources, technology and services Mission Statement involving information technology. District Resource Centre and their staffs provide students and educators with cost effective, equitable access to learning IFLA Statement resources and services through evaluat- ing, planning, managing and promoting IFLA Statement on Libraries · Libraries contribute to the development and these resources. & Intellectual Freedom maintenance of intellectual freedom and help This statement was prepared by IFLA Leadership & Liaison to safeguard basic democratic values and FA-IFE and approved by the Executive universal civil rights. District Resource Centre staff provide Board of IFLA, 25 March 1999, The Hague, · Libraries have a responsibility both to leadership and liaison through the devel- Netherlands. guarantee and to facilitate access to opment and promotion of learning IFLA-IFE (The International Federation of expressions of knowledge and intellectual ac- Library Associations and Institutions) sup- resources for use across the district and tivity. To this end, libraries shall acquire, pre- ports, defends and promotes intellectual free- serve and make available the widest variety at the school level. dom as defined in the United Nations Uni- of materials, reflecting the plurality and Acquisition & Distribution of versal Declaration of Human Rights. diversity of society. IFLA declares that human beings have a · Libraries shall ensure that the selection Learning Resources fundamental right to access to expressions and District Resource Centres have coor- of knowledge, creative thought and intellec- availability of library materials and services dinated systems for the acquisition and tual activity, and to express their views pub- is governed by professional considerations distribution of learning resources that licly. and not by political, moral and religious IFLA believes that the right to know and ensure cost effective and equitable views. freedom of expression are two aspects of the · Libraries shall acquire, organize and access across the entire school district. same principle. The right to know is a re- disseminate freely and oppose any form of Evaluation & Selection of quirement for freedom of thought and con- censorship. science; freedom of thought and freedom of · Libraries shall make materials facilities and Learning Resources expression are necessary conditions for free- services equally accessible to all users. There A learner focused educational philoso- dom of access to information. shall be no discrimination due to race, creed, phy and the accompanying emphasis on IFLA asserts that a commitment to intel- gender, age or for any other reason. resource-based learning has made the lectual freedom is a core responsibility for · Library users shall have the right to per- the library and information profession. evaluation and selection of appropriate sonal IFLA therefore calls upon libraries and li- privacy and anonymity. Librarians and other learning resources a vital component of brary staff to adhere to the principles of in- library staff shall not disclose the identity of curriculum implementation. Learning tellectual freedom, uninhibited access to in- users or the materials they use to a third resources to support the teaching and formation and freedom of expression and to party. learning of curricula are best selected by recognize the privacy of library user. · Libraries funded from public sources and IFLA urges its members activity to promote educators at the Provincial, District and to the acceptance and realization of these prin- which the public have access shall uphold School level. ciples. In doing so, IFLA affirms that: the principles of intellectual freedom. Management of District · Libraries provide access to information, · Librarians and other employees in such ideas and works of imagination. They serve libraries have a duty to uphold those Resource Centres as gateways to knowledge, thought and cul- principles. Management includes the ability to ad- ture. · Librarians and other professional libraries minister District Resource Centre pro- · Libraries provide essential support for life- staff shall fulfil their responsibilities both to grams, facilities, services, and staff in llong learning, independent decision making their employer and to their users. In cases order that these may contribute to the and cultural development for both individu- of conflict between those responsibilities, the stated educational goals of the District als and groups. duty towards the user shall take precedence. and the Ministry.

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