A chain of computer book specialty stores that once boasted half a dozen locations across Canada and was considering expanding into the U.S. is closing its final store, a victim of the tech crash and ... Read More »

Penguin Canada has teamed up with Frontier College to promote youth literacy – and the company’s children’s authors – with a daylong Toronto event next week.WordJam 2003 will take place on Mar. 11 at Toronto’s ... Read More »

Fledgling publisher Cantos International threatened legal action against an opponent of its book Karla: A Pact with the Devil yesterday, as booksellers across the country pulled the book from their shelves. Author Stephen Williams and ... Read More »

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has relaunched Children’s Book News, its member publication, with a new name, new look, greater frequency, and a newsstand presence.The spring 2003 issue of Canadian Children’s Book News features a ... Read More »

Every author should be so lucky as Don Gutteridge, who has just published Turncoat, the first in a series of historical mysteries, with McClelland & Stewart. Now a group of Gutteridge’s friends is at work ... Read More »

As the Canada Reads deliberations close, an Ontario group has announced its own community reading promotion for the second year in a row.The One Book, One Community program in the Kitchener-Waterloo area has unveiled Jane ... Read More »

Denise Bombardier may have championed Next Episode on CBC Radio’s Canada Reads panel, but that doesn’t mean she was expecting it to win.Bombardier, a Montreal-based journalist and author, was surprised herself when Hubert Aquin’s novel ... Read More »

The charms of Anne of Green Gables are spreading to children in Germany, the U.S., and Australia, thanks to a PEI elementary school.Last fall Debbie MacLean, a Grade 1 teacher at Vernon River Consolidated School ... Read More »