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Honours stack up for JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith’s Sidewalk Flowers

It's been a banner week for Toronto author JonArno Lawson and illustrator Sydney Smith. Within hours of their book, Sidewalk Flowers, winning the Governor General's Literary Award in the illustrated book category on Oct. 27, ... Read More »

October 29, 2015 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing

First Book Canada, Kobo collaborate on literacy initiative with Neil Pasricha

By Dory Cerny

First Book Canada, Kobo, and Penguin Random House Canada have announced they are collaborating with The Book of Awesome author Neil Pasricha on a targeted literacy initiative. The Awesome Project will see Pasricha visiting five ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing

OLA announces 2016 Forest of Reading nominees

By Dory Cerny

The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for their 2016 Forest of Reading Awards: The Blue Spruce (K–Gr.2); Silver Birch fiction (Gr.5–6), non-fiction (Gr.5–6), and express (Gr.3–4); Red Maple (Gr.7–8); White Pine (Gr.9–12); two ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Children's publishing, Libraries

Anne Michaels named Toronto’s new poet laureate

By Becky Robertson

Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels has been chosen to serve as Toronto’s fifth poet laureate, beginning in November. Michaels is the author of five poetry collections and two novels and has received numerous accolades, ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: Elvis Costello beats Keith Richards; in praise of Svetlana Alexievich; Kitchener Public Library is in a hotspot

By Sue Carter

Kitchener Public Library first in Canada to loan out Wi-Fi hotspots. (CBC) Why Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize win is good for literature. (Flavorwire) There's a lot more to Sandra Boynton than just hippopotamuses. (New Yorker) ... Read More »

October 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Q&A: Lakes of Canada’s Jake Smith on turning personal tragedy and A Handmaid’s Tale into music

By Nathaniel Basen

Montreal indie musician Jake Smith first read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel A Handmaid’s Tale in 2011. He found a copy of the book while cleaning his mother's home, following her shocking murder there the previous fall. Now, ... Read More »

October 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

CWILA’s 2014 count suggests “quantifiable shift in gender representation” in literary media

By Sue Carter

Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, which tracks gender parity in literary criticism, has released its 2014 survey, with results that are marginally positive for women authors and reviewers. The annual report tracks the ratio ... Read More »

October 8, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: London Book Fair moves to March; a tween’s take on Elena Ferrante; a poetic consideration of the owl

By Sue Carter

Happy 40th to the Book Shop in Penticton, B.C. (Kelowna Daily Courier). How thousands of secondhand books from the U.S. end up in Nigeria (The New Yorker). From Twin Peaks to Winnie-the-Pooh, a poet delves ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Canada hosts IBBY Italia’s International exhibit of wordless picture books

By Becky Robertson

In response to the international refugee crisis that began last year, the Italian arm of the International Board on Books for Young People has launched a picture-book exhibit to support the first children’s library in ... Read More »

September 23, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Kids Can Press joins classroom refurbishment project

By Becky Robertson

From Aug. 11–14, staff from Toronto’s Kids Can Press and parent company Corus Entertainment teamed up with Frontier College, a non-profit literacy organization aimed at aboriginal communities, for a classroom refurbishment project in Cat Lake ... Read More »

September 22, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

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Honours stack up for JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith’s Sidewalk Flowers

First Book Canada, Kobo collaborate on literacy initiative with Neil Pasricha

OLA announces 2016 Forest of Reading nominees

Anne Michaels named Toronto’s new poet laureate

Book Links: Elvis Costello beats Keith Richards; in praise of Svetlana Alexievich; Kitchener Public Library is in a hotspot

Q&A: Lakes of Canada’s Jake Smith on turning personal tragedy and A Handmaid’s Tale into music

CWILA’s 2014 count suggests “quantifiable shift in gender representation” in literary media

Book Links: London Book Fair moves to March; a tween’s take on Elena Ferrante; a poetic consideration of the owl

Canada hosts IBBY Italia’s International exhibit of wordless picture books

Kids Can Press joins classroom refurbishment project

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