Librarians need to be more responsive to the reading interests of teenage boys, delegates were told at the International Forum on Canadian Children’s Literature last week in Ottawa. The message was highlighted by a Nova ... Read More »

In an effort to boost exposure for its children’s titles, HarperCollins Canada has promoted publicist Felicia Quon to the position of children’s marketing and publicity manager.Quon stepped into the new position on Monday, becoming HarperCollins ... Read More »

Clark wins Bilson – Newfoundland author Joan Clark has won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for the second time. Clark won this year’s prize for her young adult novel The ... Read More »

It’s safe to say that with more than one million copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in circulation in Canada, book five of the blockbuster series is living up to expectations. ... Read More »

The National Post’s ever-changing books section has taken a new form as a two-page spread at the back of the Saturday travel section.The new format includes a page with three reviews and another with a ... Read More »

As many as 100 young writers will receive hands-on instruction from some of Canada’s best-known children’s authors and illustrators this August during the first Toronto-based Canadian Book Camp.The day camp, which runs Aug. 18 to ... Read More »

The recent success by U.K. agency Curtis Brown Group selling two Canadian first-time novelists highlights increasing international opportunities for Canadian writers, and is a sign of what one U.K. agent calls her industry’s growing interest ... Read More »

Buoyed by a string of bestsellers in its national and international children’s program, HarperCollins Canada is dedicating additional sales and marketing staff to children’s and YA titles.In the latest of a series of new appointments, ... Read More »

After three years of writing about books, Noah Richler has decided to pen his own. The National Post books columnist announced in the last paragraph of his column yesterday that he was leaving the paper, ... Read More »