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Common running musculoskeletal injuries among recreational half-marathon runners in KwaZulu-Natal
Authors: Ellapen TJ , Satyendra S , Morris J , Van Heerden HJ 
Published: April 2016

Objective. To document the prevalence and nature of running-related musculoskeletal injuries among recreational half-marathon runners over a 12-month period (1 July 2011 - 31 June 2012).Methods. Data were collected from runners (N=200) who officially ran half-marathon road races during February - June 2012. Runners, whose participation in the study was dependent on voluntary informed consent, were required to complete a self-report questionnaire probing the prevalence and nature of running musculoskeletal injuries in the 12 months preceding recruitment. Probability was set at p≤0.05.Results. One hundred and eighty (90%) runners reported sustaining musculoskeletal injuries (p<0.001). The anatomical site most vulnerable to injury was the knee (26%), followed by the tibia/fibula (22%) and the lower back/hip (16%) (p<0.001). The intrinsic factors predisposing runners to musculoskeletal injuries were deviant quadriceps and hip flexion angles (p≤0.05).Conclusion. Recreational runners in our cohort sustained a high prevalence of knee, tibia/fibula and lower back/hip injuries.
Associations of objectively and subjectively measured physical activity with trabecular and cortical bone properties in prepubertal children
Authors: Meiring Rebecca Mary , McVeigh Joanne Alexandra 
Published: April 2016

Objectives. To compare the relationship between peak bone strain scores (PBSSs) calculated from physical activity (PA) questionnaires and accelerometry measures of PA with trabecular and cortical bone properties in prepubertal children.Methods. We compared PBSSs calculated from the bone-specific component of PA questionnaires with accelerometry and bone mass measures in 38 prepubertal children (mean 9.9 (standard deviation 1.3) years). Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) were used to assess bone content and structure, and to estimate bone strength at the radial and tibial diaphysis and radial metaphysis. Results. The PBSS was reliable and reproducible with significant (p<0.001) intraclass correlation coefficients. There were significant correlations between PBSS and moderate (r=0.38; p=0.02), vigorous (r=0.36; p=0.03) and combined moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity counts (r=0.38; p=0.02). PBSS was significantly correlated to body size-adjusted bone mineral content at all sites scanned by DXA (r=0.33 - 0.48; p<0.05). Positive correlations were observed between PBSS and area, density and strength at the radius and tibia (r=0.40 - 0.64; p<0.05). Only vigorous activity was correlated to cortical area at the radial diaphysis (r=0.37; p=0.03) and bone strength at the tibial diaphysis (r=0.32; p=0.05). Activity as assessed by the PBSS explained a greater amount of variance in bone variables as measured by DXA and pQCT than accelerometer-measured PA. Conclusion. Accelerometer-measured moderate and vigorous habitual PA is associated with indices of cortical bone size and geometry in children, whereas light PA has no detectable association. Furthermore, the bone-specific questionnaire appears to be more strongly associated with bone outcomes than accelerometer-derived measures of PA.
Authenticity and Children's Engagement with Writing
Authors: Jones Shelley K 
Published: April 2016

Authentic literacy activities engage children with meaningful reading and writing (Duke, Purcell-Gates, Hall, & Tower, 2006), but little investigation has been conducted into the relationship of the kinds of writing children enjoy and the authenticity of the writing activity and experience. This paper reports findings from a study that investigates the question: How, if at all, does authenticity factor into kinds of writing that children like and/or dislike? Findings indicate that children enjoy writing that purposefully engages them with the real world, and is therefore authentic, and do not enjoy writing that they perceive as merely “school work”.
Global English online – a case study of a distance learning course in a business context
Authors: Peters Helen 
Published: April 2016

The Open University in the UK, which has been providing distance education across the UK and continental Europe for the last 40 years, has recently started to develop an international strategy. New media allow for the creation of virtual learning spaces where students can learn from each other via the stimulus of materials from which they can draw according to their own perception of their needs. The challenge is to create materials appropriate for the range of possible contexts. This paper seeks to explore the reaction of students to one such course in relation to the concept of lingua franca English (LFE), which is essentially pragmatic, developing within a particular context, for a particular purpose and negotiated by those using it in that context.
Who will save my planet? by M. C. Urrutia
Authors: Campbell Sandy 
Published: April 2016

Urrutia, Maria. Who will save my planet? Toronto: Tundra Books, 2012. Print.This volume appears to be a republication of a 2007 imprint from the author’s own publishing house, Tecolate Books, in Mexico. Although Tundra recognizes support from the Canada Council for the Arts, there appears to be no specific Canadian content in this book. There is no text and the images are the work of several different photographers. Urrutia’s contribution to the work appears to be the title and the selection and pairing of the images. The book is designed for children ages 7+ and consists of 14 pairs of unadorned, borderless photographs. Each spread of two images shows something environmentally negative on the left and a corresponding positive image on the right. However, without text, the viewer is left to draw their own conclusions about what message is intended. Many of the images have several potential interpretations, particularly for viewers coming from a different environment. For example, the opening pair of images shows fire in the canopy of a tropical forest, presumably implying that people are burning the forest. However in Canada, lightning is naturally one of the primary causes of forest fires which is a natural part of the forest’s life cycle. In the second set of images, someone is cutting down a tree, but it is the only one being felled. The rest of the forest appears to be undisturbed. An image of a clear-cut would have conveyed a much more obvious message. The second last pair show garbage strewn along a path and the images are a garbage can overflowing with garbage, with a plastic water bottle prominently placed on top. Bottled water is one of the least environmentally friendly things on the planet. Is the message that producing huge volumes of unnecessary garbage is fine as long as you put it in the garbage can? Many of the images are high quality. An image of a seal with the rope embedded in the flesh around its shoulders is particularly effective. However, the selection and combination of images, as a whole, reminds me of posters at a fourth grade science fair. The difference is that the fourth graders usually add captions and introductory paragraphs so that their messages are clear. While environmental damage anywhere is important, this book would have been more effective for the Canadian market had it incorporated images of environmental problems found in the Canadian environment. Recommended with reservation: 2 stars out of 4 Reviewer: Sandy CampbellSandy is a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Alberta, who has written hundreds of book reviews across many disciplines. Sandy thinks that sharing books with children is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give.
That One Spooky Night by D. Bar-el
Authors: Pendry Annabelle 
Published: April 2016

Bar-el, Dan. That One Spooky Night. Toronto: Kids Can Press. 2012. Print. Especially appealing during the Halloween season or for those students who appreciate a good semi-scary story any time of the year, That One Spooky Night delivers three off-the-wall short and spooky tales. Child protagonists who are all far from pillars of good behaviour set the stage for a more comedic and less truly scary approach to the zany horrors that happen to them. In Broom With A View, a young girl chooses a witch costume for Halloween but accidentally switches brooms with a real witch. On Halloween night, the broom whisks her away to its real owner, a cheeky but good-hearted witch who shows her younger counterpart how to really have fun on Halloween night without being a brat. In 10,000 Tentacles Under the Tub, two mischievous brothers, who, after a night of getting into trouble and almost overwhelming their father with their misbehaviour, find themselves locked in an epic battle in the underwater world they discover at the bottom of their bathtub. In The Fang Gang, four girls terrorize local children until they find themselves facing a foursome of real vampires in disguise who give them a dose of their own medicine. Illustrator David Huyck’s use of muted colours and soft edges throughout the book serve to both unify the stories and transmit an ethereal quality to the images. The different colour schemes used in each story are particularly effective for transporting the reader into foreign, underwater worlds and sinister vampire lairs. Wordless panels are interspersed throughout, further drawing the reader into sullen moods which effectively contrast the zany storyline making That One Spooky Night an entertaining read for upper primary and intermediate readers. Recommended: 3 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Annabelle Pendry Annabelle Pendry loves her job as Teacher Librarian at Mount Pleasant Elementary in Vancouver, BC.
Selecting Fiction Books for a Children's Health Collection by M. Tan & S. Campbell
Authors: Tan Maria , Campbell Sandy 
Published: April 2016

Books have long been recognized resources for health literacy and healing (Fosson & Husband, 1984). Individuals with health conditions or disabilities or who are dealing with illness, disability or death among friends or loved ones, can find solace and affirmation in fictional works that depict characters coping with similar health conditions. This study asked the question “If we were to select a new collection of children’s health-related fiction in mid-2014, which books would we select and what selection criteria would we apply?” The results of this study are a set of criteria for the selection of current English language literary works with health-related content for the pre-kindergarten to Grade 6 (age 12) audience http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.38842, a collection of books that are readily available to Canadian libraries - selected against these criteria http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.38843, a special issue of the Deakin Review of Children’s Literature - dedicated to juvenile health fiction, and book exhibits in two libraries to accompany the Deakin Review issue.
La magie de Sami par J. Couëlle
Authors: Gomez Leticia 
Published: April 2016

Couëlle, Jennifer. La magie de Sami. Canada : Éditions Planète Rebelle, 2014. Imprimé.Jennifer Couëlle est une auteure d’albums pour enfants qui écrit également de la poésie. Dans son dernier livre intitulé La magie de Sami, des rimes se mêlent au discours prosaïque et rythme ainsi le récit à la manière d’un poème. Dans ce livre d’une trentaine de pages, il n’y a ni chapitre, ni numéro de pages, juste des mots et des images qui s’entremêlent. Pour cet album, l’auteure a fait appel à Julie Grugeaux, artiste peintre ayant déjà illustré cinq romans jeunesses. Les dessins sont épurées, précis, plutôt colorées et se marient à merveille avec le texte.Quant au récit lui-même, il raconte l’histoire de Sami, un petit garçon tout à fait comme les autres sauf qu’il cache un secret. Il ressent ce qui ne va pas chez ceux qui l’entoure. Grâce à ce don, le petit frère de son ami a pu retrouver le sommeil. Sami, par ses paroles, a fait sourire la dame triste et son intuition lui a permis de redonner vie au jardin de son voisin. Mais quand il tente d’aider Hervé, c’est plutôt raté et ce dernier finit par avoir un accident. Après cette triste nouvelle, Sami décide de rentrer chez lui et d’expliquer à ses parents sa capacité à « sentir des choses qu’[il] ne devrai[t] pas ». C’est alors que ses parents lui avouent qu’il est sorcier et que ce don étrange s’appelle l’empathie. Cette nouvelle est un véritable choc et il en fait même des cauchemars. Sami voudrait avouer son incroyable don à ses amis mais ces derniers risqueraient de le rejeter à cause de sa différence.Voilà une histoire de sorcier originale qui va faire découvrir aux jeunes lecteurs un sentiment nouveau, l’empathie. Entre les lignes, se cachent aussi l’angoisse d’exclusion d’un enfant un peu particulier. Sami, le personnage principal fait cependant preuve de lucidité face à sa différence. Bien qu’il accepte son côté sorcier, trait identitaire qui lui vient de ses parents, il reste quelque peu tourmenté par les conséquences que cela pourrait avoir dans sa relation à l’autre.Cet album est idéal pour les parents francophones ou francophiles qui aiment raconter à leurs enfants des histoires simples et bien illustrées abordant des thèmes quotidiens tels que la différence, la peur de l’exclusion et l’amitié.Recommandé : 3 étoilesAuteur de la critique : Leticia GomezLeticia étudie au Campus Saint-Jean depuis deux ans où elle effectue un baccalauréat en éducation secondaire avec une majeure en littérature. Elle écrit également des critiques littéraires pour le Franco, un journal francophone local.
Little Blue and Little Yellow by L. Lionni
Authors: Feisst Debbie 
Published: April 2016

Lionni, Leo. Little Blue and Little Yellow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print. Award-winning author, artist, and graphic illustrator, Leo Lionni, had a distinguished, decades-spanning career and wrote over 40 children’s books in an easily recognizable style. Little Blue and Little Yellow was his first children’s book, and it won the New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year award in 1959. Lionni was also a four-time Caldecott Honor Book winner, an award that celebrates excellence in children’s picture books. This review pertains to the 2011 board book edition, just right for the littlest hands. The story is simple perfection. Little Blue and Little Yellow, are best friends who live across the street from one another. They enjoy all sorts of games both together and with their other equally-colourful friends. One day, Little Blue wants to play with Little Yellow but cannot find him. Overjoyed as they finally meet up, they hug until they become green! However, when they go home, their parents do not recognize them, and they are very sad. Where did Little Blue and Little Yellow go? Are they lost? This delightful story has many layers. It can simply be read as a way to introduce the concept of colour to young children, but it has deeper, yet understated, themes of friendship and diversity. It is a delight to read and look at, and while this sturdy edition is certainly aimed at the preschool crowd, older children will enjoy it too. Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Debbie FeisstDebbie is a Public Services Librarian at the H.T. Coutts Education Library at the University of Alberta. When not renovating, she enjoys travel, fitness and young adult fiction.
Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists
Authors: Sivak Allison 
Published: April 2016

The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Thematic issue of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. 113 (Winter 2010) Granta is a quarterly magazine of new writing from both established and emerging writers; although aimed primarily at adult audiences, it could easily be considered as a journal with appeal to young adults particularly due to its diverse content and style, offering readers a greater scope of choice. Granta could often, I suspect, serve to pique the interest of older adolescents due in part to the periodical's contemporary approach to cover design, and its integration of visual art and poetry with prose, along with the obvious diversity and strength of the writing in general. However, the challenge with such a magazine in the context of a school library or classroom is that Granta is published for an adult audience, meaning that individual issues may not always serve younger readers. I had assumed that The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists would have resulted in stories that addressed experiences particularly relevant to adolescent readers, including childhood, early experiences of sexuality, and the like. Certainly, to some extent, the work included does; for example, the story by Peru's Santiago Roncagliolo, which explores the narrator's adult encounter of a strange childhood friend, which calls to memory his first love. Another is Federico Falco's “In Utah There are Mountains Too,” telling the story of a young atheist's crush on a visiting Mormon missionary. It's an excellent collection; overall, however, I don't believe this particular issue will appeal to adolescents. This is due primarily to the fact that most of the pieces included are excerpts from longer novels, which do not feel immersive, or commanding of enough attention. It's unfortunate, because the chance to offer readers access to work from cultures outside North America is exciting. This issue of Granta may not be the one to best serve this goal. Recommended: 2 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Allison Sivak
Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-Five Cents: A Story About Choices by K. Cole
Authors: Sherbaniuk Patti 
Published: April 2016

Cole, Kathryn. Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-Five Cents: A Story About Choices. Illus. Qin Leng. Second Story Press: Toronto, 2015. Print.Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-Five Cents. A Story About Choices is part of the I am a Great Little Kid Series by Second Story Press, published in conjunction with Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre.Fifteen Dollars and Thirty-Five Cents tells a simple story, yet successfully brings across some bigger themes. It takes place at an elementary school. Joseph, who is with his friend Devon, finds some money in the school yard- fifteen dollars and thirty-five cents. He is very excited and wants to keep it, but Devon has second thoughts and thinks that someone they know might have lost it and that they should turn it in. Joseph says “finders’ keepers” and offers Devon five of the dollars not to tell. Devon is very tempted but then sees his classmate Lin crying and has the feeling that it is her money they have found. His suspicion is confirmed when they are back in the classroom and the teacher, Ms. Crosby, asks sad Lin what is wrong. Lin’s friend Claire says it was money for her mother’s birthday present that she has been saving for weeks. Devon is increasingly uncomfortable but Joseph pressures him to stay quiet because they are friends and because he is also worried that people will think he stole it. The teacher suspects something and gives Devon a chance to explain what has happened. He doesn’t tell on his friend but lets his teacher know her suspicions are correct. Ms. Claire comes up with a way for Devon and Joseph to give the money back without them getting in trouble and everyone is happy with the outcome.The story is simple but gets the point across about making the right choices, about friendship, honesty, and “doing the right thing”, without being too preachy. The cast of characters are diverse and the issues dealt with in the story are ones that kids can relate to.The illustrations by Qin Leng are vibrant and colourful and enhance the telling of the story. I would recommend this book for young children from ages 5-8 years of age.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Patti SherbaniukPatti is a Liaison Librarian at the Winspear School of Business at the University of Alberta. She holds a BA in English and an MLIS, both from the University of Alberta. She is passionate about food, travel, the arts and reading books of all shapes and sizes.
The Silence of Our Friends by M. Long & J. Demonakos
Authors: Wenger Pamela 
Published: April 2016

Long, Mark & Jim Demonakos. The Silence of Our Friends. New York: First Second, 2012. Print. This story is told from the perspective of a boy whose father was a reporter in the city of Houston, Texas. In the year 1967, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement many families struggled to find freedom in their racist communities. During a police riot that had been started after banning an organizational committee from Texas Southern University, an undercover officer was shot. Out of the 489 students that were attested, all but 5 students were released the next day. Those five black college students were accused of killing a policeman. Set in a time of racism and segregation, two families struggle with the events of the riot. With the support of these understanding neighbours, a white family took a risk in trying to win back the freedom of the accused students. The artwork by Nate Powell has created powerful imagery that allows readers to place themselves within the setting and events of that period in history. The combination of historical story elements and graphic images may hook reluctant readers. The graphic nature of the story is engaging and will educate students of a period in history often presented in more traditional formats. Recommended: 3 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Pamela Wenger Pamela Wenger is a 4th year teacher-librarian working between two schools in Regina. She is planning to complete a Masters of Education in Teacher-Librarianship in April 2013.
Bear's Loose Tooth by K. Wilson and J. Chapman
Authors: Storie Dale 
Published: April 2016

Wilson, Karma, and Jane Chapman. Bear's Loose Tooth. New York: Little Simon, 2014. Print.This title is the latest in a series of books featuring Bear and his friends. Those familiar with the series will know what to expect: the title describes the main plot point of the book (e.g. Bear Feels Sick or Bear’s New Friend), the language is lyrical and rhythmic with plenty of repetition, and the painted illustrations are a mixture of cartoony realism. His friends are a rather random group of forest animals that one would not typically expect to see together, such as a wren, a mouse, an owl, a hare and a badger. This particular title is a great introduction to the experience of losing a tooth. Bear is initially worried when he discovers his loose tooth while eating lunch: “But how will I eat if my tooth says good-bye?” After his friends reassure him that another tooth will grow in, they take turns trying to pull out his tooth. Finally, Bear wiggles his tooth until it falls out. He leaves his tooth for the tooth fairy, who exchanges it for something a bear would like better than money (read the book to find out what that is).The size difference between the animals is presented realistically, which is part of the charm of the book; for example, the image of a tiny wren trying to pull a tooth out of the mouth of a big bear is quite comical. The illustrations also play a large role in defining Bear as a character, who comes across as an adorable and timid creature, without any trace of the guile or ferocity one might expect from a bear. Younger readers will probably accept the book at face value, but older readers may question why Bear and his friends have not tried to eat each other yet (e.g. Owl and Mouse). Either way, the book is still a fun read that helps prepare children for what to expect with a loose tooth. Recommended: 3 of out 4 starsReviewer: Dale StorieDale is a systems librarian at the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services Consortium. He has also worked in an academic health sciences library as a public services librarian and in a public library as a children's programming coordinator. He can often be found at the park with his kids