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12 Ontario School Library association TL Professional Resources Our theme for this issue is Heritage @ your library, so I've selected a variety of titles related to various interpretations of "heritage", including historical fiction, Canadian biographies, and the heritage each student brings to the classroom. Happy reading! Read On… Historical Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste (Read On Series) Brad Hooper 2006 1591582393 Read On…Historical Fiction is a collection of annotated book lists divided into five groups: Setting, Character, Story, Language, and Mood and Atmosphere. Each group of lists is subdivided into a number of more specific topical lists. The annotations are quite brief. The single index combines author, title, and topical entries. Hooper has written this book to facilitate both collection development and readers advisory work and has made it very accessible to library patrons as well as librarians. Canadian teacher- librarians will have two problems with Read On… Historical Fiction. The first is the lack of Canadian content. The second is the fact that Hooper created his booklists with adult readers in mind, so, although children's and young adult's historical fiction certainly exists, it is not included here. Since this is an optional purchase for collection development, interested teacher-librarians might want to first see whether their local public libraries have copies they can access. Historical Fiction for Young Readers (Grades 4 - 8): An Introduction (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference Series) John T. Gillespie 2008 9781591586210 In Historical Fiction for Young Readers, Gillespie provides a guide for anyone interested in introducing historical fiction to children in grades four through eight. The first three chapters provide background and theory, including an introduction to the genre and criteria for evaluating historical fiction, a brief (55 pages!) history of the genre, and some suggestions for bringing children and books together. The rest of Historical Fiction for Young Readers consists of annotated entries divided into geographical sections, including Europe, Asia and Oceania, Africa, Latin America and Canada (which seems an odd pairing), and the United States. The sections on Europe and the US are further divided into chronological subsections. Each section includes four to nine titles with extensive annotations as well as additional selections with brief annotations. The long annotations provide bibliographic information, an introduction to both the author and the work, historical background, a list of principal characters, a plot synopsis, suggested passages for booktalking, and information about themes and subjects. The brief annotations provide bibliographic information. Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a useful guide for anyone interested in introducing historical fiction to children. However, Canadian teacher- librarians will be sorely disappointed by the serious lack of Canadian content--a total of 14 suggested titles, with long annotations for only three of the fourteen (as a point of interest, only one of these three authors is Canadian). Compare this to thirty- six long annotations for Europe and thirty-five for the United States (plus the additional selections for each section). Having developed a Canadian historical fiction unit ("A Novel Approach to Canadian History"), I found it interesting that NONE of the titles I've found--and I've found quite a few - are included in Gillespie's collection. A recommended purchase for district professional collections. A school library copy will be useful if there's ongoing local interest in European and/or American historical fiction (such as a fiction unit to complement the history curriculum). Would have been highly recommended had there been more Canadian content. Canadian Scientists and Inventors: Biographies of People Who Shaped Our World, 2nd ed. Harry Black 2008 9781551382227 Canadian Scientists and To purchase these and other great titles, contact The OLAStore* at 416-363-3388 or visit us online at accessola.com/store