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The cracks in the sidewalk that go on forever Are crazy and crumbling and snaking together. The Canadian tradition of illustrated children’s humorous poetry collections begins with Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie. To that tradition is added this latest worthy contribution, The Cracks in the Sidewalk by Gordon Chisholm. Many of these 30 poems, accompanied by 32 black-and-white line-drawing illustrations, provide a humorous and playful view of common everyday experiences that children have, such as simply walking along on a sidewalk. Other poems are whimsical flights of fancy or observations of the natural world. All together, these fun verses aim at widening children's sense of curiosity and wonder, and promoting feelings of self assurance and confidence in their abilities. I wish I had an Artobot To draw the lines that I cannot, To choose the colours that fit the scene, So that my pictures look bright and clean. An Artobot to shade wherever I please, To tint and tone with skilful ease.

Share with me and I’ll share with you And together now, you and me, we will see All the things that we can do, Yes, we can do . . . me and you. Have you ever tasted a snowflake? Built cities with LEGO? Looked at your toe through a hole in your sock? Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a fish or imagined animals in the clouds? Share with Me: Poems for Kids Volume II has poems for all these things and more. In the tradition of the best of Canadian children’s poetry, Share with Me celebrates the viewpoint of the child—including the joys of the playground, daydreams and fantasies, and of course jokes—and encourages self-confidence and appreciation of the natural world. Its forty poems are accompanied by colour illustrations and are ideal for children aged 6–11. It’s so annoying when you meet someone walking up a slide. Especially when you’re going down and you end up giving them a ride!

While the general wisdom has it that behaviorism is dead, it not only survives but is intellectually active in areas such as psychological theory, the analysis of language and cognition, and behavioral economics. It is a successful, albeit limited, source of behavioral science. Its chief difficulty arises when its practitioners look out from their laboratory windows and attempt to explain the complexities of human behavior that will never be amenable to direct experimental investigation. Behavior analysis has failed to establish a methodology of interpretation to deal fully with such complexity. The message of this essay is that it cannot do so without embracing intentional explanation in the form of an interpretive overlay that plugs the gaps in its explanations of life beyond the lab.

Bud is a boy in Grade Two starting the year at a new school. When he experiences kids "budding in line" he becomes increasingly uncomfortable and upset. When he hears, "Don't bud!" he thinks they are yelling, "Don't, Bud!" and directing their anger at him. Soon he becomes very unhappy at school. Even after his parents explain that what the kids are saying is not directed at him, he is still upset. When his teacher learns the reason for his unhappiness, there is a discussion with his classmates about what to do. They decide to put up posters and write a short play as part of a "no budding" campaign. Then their music teacher writes a song about "budding in" which Bud's class performs. Soon kids in the school start behaving more politely in line. Bud feels relieved. He is happy to be at school once again and enjoys playing with his friends.

This is a work that has intentionally been constructed to provide an overview of the criminal justice system in Victoria. It is ?panoramic? in its breadth and the scope is informed by one fundamental idea: the tracing of the criminal law and its practical impact from start to finish. So the work surveys the impact of evidential, substantive and procedural systems and rules that are relevant to the practice of criminal law in Victoria from the commission of an offence until the exhaustion of post-conviction relief by way of appeal. It aims to be practical. We have done so by selecting topics that we believe are of most practical use to the criminal defence lawyer.