Junior (Gr. 4-6) Canadian (3z... (Bin... Canadian Citizenship in Action Series... titles provide a succinct... visually stimulating portrait of what it means to be a... Canadian. Each volume of 32 pages is illustrated lavishly and provides a glossary, index, suggested reading and internet resources... books give a good summary of their... topics but do tend to political correctness rather than... accuracy... the expanding text and examples throughout these titles were... a little too convenient and ill-considered. Somehow a web reference on the rights of Canadian citizens gathered from an ESL page, as opposed to a primary source, would have better served to illustrate the point the text was making. However... there is... merit in these books. They... distil a great deal of information into a readable, accessible format, at least at the outset. The questions... at the end of a section encourage discussion... perhaps the most important feature of these books. The "What is your viewpoint?" section... (in) each book is done particularly well... (3z <(BU+2013> Resource Links, Apr/10.

Includes index.