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Fall preview 2008: books for young people

The price kids pay No one writes about the lives of downtrodden children with more compassion than Deborah Ellis. In Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children (Groundwood Books, $16.95 cl., Sept.), she turns her ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Fall preview 2008: Canadian fiction

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Gangs of Canada Ten years ago, Austin Clarke was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Far from signalling the beginning of the end of a long and illustrious career that has included some ... Read More »

September 26, 2008

Fall preview 2008: Canadian non-fiction

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The sweet smell of success There may be bigger non-fiction stars at the moment than Malcolm Gladwell, but none leap to mind. The Canadian-raised New Yorker staff writer has produced two massively successful books of ... Read More »

September 26, 2008

Canadian Children’s Book Centre award nominees

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The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has announced the finalists for three of the four children’s book awards it administers. (The fourth, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, was previously announced on Aug. 6.) The winners ... Read More »

September 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Booksellers, wholesalers vying for Ontario school library funding

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The Ontario government has finally gotten around to disbursing some of the $80-million it promised earlier this year for the purchase of books for school libraries, but some booksellers are complaining that the tendering process ... Read More »

September 25, 2008

New kids’ bookstore opens in Vancouver

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After years as the only children’s bookseller in town, Vancouver Kidsbooks is facing competition from a new upstart. Open for more than a month, Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush is the brainchild of former film ... Read More »

September 25, 2008

Choy wins Harbourfront prize

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Novelist Wayson Choy has been named the winner of the 2008 Harbourfront Festival Prize, which honours an individual who has made “a substantial contribution to the world of books and writing.” The award comes with ... Read More »

September 25, 2008

Distribution change: Owlkids

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As of Jan. 1, 2009, Owlkids (along with Maple Tree Press) will be distributed ... Read More »

September 25, 2008

Blue Metropolis expands programming to Toronto

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The Blue Metropolis Foundation, which organizes the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal, is attempting to expand its reach by staging a couple of events in Toronto over the next few weeks. The first ... Read More »

September 24, 2008

Deals: Sept. 25, 2008

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Penguin Canada associate editor Jennifer Notman has bought world rights to a new YA novel by prolific author Eric Walters. Wounded is the story of a soldier who returns from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, ... Read More »

September 24, 2008

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Fall preview 2008: books for young people

Fall preview 2008: Canadian fiction

Fall preview 2008: Canadian non-fiction

Canadian Children’s Book Centre award nominees

Booksellers, wholesalers vying for Ontario school library funding

New kids’ bookstore opens in Vancouver

Choy wins Harbourfront prize

Distribution change: Owlkids

Blue Metropolis expands programming to Toronto

Deals: Sept. 25, 2008

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