by Shanda Deziel

Kidlit spring preview 2019: Picture books

The Not-So Great Outdoors Madeline Kloepper Tundra Books, May In her first picture book as author and illustrator, Madeline Kloepper (Little Blue Chair) takes on the lure of screens. In The Not-So Great Outdoors, an ... Read More »

January 17, 2019

Sarah Raughley on what it’s like to finish the last book in a fantasy trilogy

By Shanda Deziel

In November, fantasy writer Sarah Raughley released Legacy of Light, the third book in her Effigies trilogy (Simon Pulse). The series, about a group of teen girls who become celebrity superheroes after they develop the ... Read More »

December 13, 2018

IBBY Canada releases a recommended list of 100 picture books by Indigenous authors

By Shanda Deziel

Since Dec. 3, the International Board on Books for Young People Canada (IBBY) has been tweeting a book a day from its new catalogue, From Sea to Sea to Sea: Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books, featuring 100 recommended ... Read More »

December 10, 2018

Firefly Books partners with award-winning kids’ show The Gumboot Kids

By Shanda Deziel

Firefly Books editorial director Steve Cameron describes the preschool TV show Scout & the Gumboot Kids as "Wes Anderson–level stop-motion animation meets really great nature facts." So when Firefly was approached to turn the show into a ... Read More »

December 10, 2018

Books of the Year 2018: Kids’ books of the year

By Shanda Deziel

Bloom Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad, ill. Tundra Books “I plant flower seeds in my ears, mouth and nose,” says Elsa Schiaparelli in this charming picture book. “I sit and wait. Wait to bloom.” Pink ... Read More »

December 3, 2018

Rose Vespa named new executive director of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre

By Shanda Deziel

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) has hired Rose Vespa as executive director, effective Jan. 7, 2019. Vespa takes over for Charlotte Teeple – who retired from the position after 22 years – and will be based ... Read More »

November 20, 2018

Marianne Dubuc takes home all three awards at the TD-Canadian Children’s Book Centre gala

By Shanda Deziel

On Nov. 19, the Canadian Children's Book Centre hosted its French-language awards night in Montreal, recognizing Marianne Dubuc's Le chemin de la montagne with all three of its prizes: the $50,000 Prix TD de littérature ... Read More »

November 20, 2018

Andrea Torrey Balsara wins Literary Classics award

By Shanda Deziel

Canadian author Andrea Torrey Balsara has won the the Eloquent Quill Book Award, as part of the 2018 Literary Classics International Book Awards, for her illustrated upper-middle-grade/YA novel The Great & the Small (Common Deer ... Read More »

November 16, 2018

Troy Wilson’s The Sinking of Captain Otter is based on a story he wrote in Grade 1

By Shanda Deziel

For years, children’s book writer Troy Wilson has been carrying around a school project he made in Grade 1. When his first picture book, Perfect Man (Orca Book Publishers), was published in 2004, Wilson started ... Read More »

November 1, 2018

Town is by the Sea, The Marrow Thieves, When the Moon Comes honoured at TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

By Shanda Deziel

Author Joanne Schwartz and illustrator Sydney Smith accepted the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award on Oct. 29 – at the Canadian Children's Book Centre gala – for their much-lauded Town is by the Sea (Groundwood Books). ... Read More »

October 30, 2018

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Kidlit spring preview 2019: Picture books

Sarah Raughley on what it’s like to finish the last book in a fantasy trilogy

IBBY Canada releases a recommended list of 100 picture books by Indigenous authors

Firefly Books partners with award-winning kids’ show The Gumboot Kids

Books of the Year 2018: Kids’ books of the year

Rose Vespa named new executive director of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre

Marianne Dubuc takes home all three awards at the TD-Canadian Children’s Book Centre gala

Andrea Torrey Balsara wins Literary Classics award

Troy Wilson’s The Sinking of Captain Otter is based on a story he wrote in Grade 1

Town is by the Sea, The Marrow Thieves, When the Moon Comes honoured at TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

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