Volume 1 Number 13
September 8, 1995

Puzzling on the Rim.

Naomi Wakan.
Victoria, B.C.: Pacific-Rim Publishers, 1994. 64pp, paper, $15.95
ISBN 0-921358-20-2.

Grades 4 - 9 / Ages 8 - 14.
Review by Elinor M. Kelly.

Puzzling on the Rim contains thirty-seven crossword puzzles (rated easy, medium, anddifficult) about Pacific Rim countries. Topics include Japanese food, Chinese inventions, Australian slang, and so on.

The idea is to put the students to work with reference books and an atlas, and the clues encourage browsing.

Some references may be hard to find in some libraries -- back issues of The Economist, Fodor's guides, or Japanese encyclopedias, for example. Some clues are only parts of words or sentences and would shock those compilers of adult cryptic puzzles with names like

Puzzling on the Rim includes permission to make photocopies for classroom use, and of course the answers are at the back.

This is an intriguing way to enlarge students' knowledge of the Pacific Rim.

Recommended.

Elinor M. Kelly is a retired librarian who lives in Port Hope, Ontario.

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The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

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