In March 2020, the CCBC’s main collection will move to Ryerson University Library in Toronto while a second identical archived collection will go to the Hamilton Public Library.
Canadian publishers scramble as Bologna Children’s Book Fair is rescheduled
Publishers, rights coordinators, agents, and more are all changing travel plans and meeting schedules, while wondering if the festival will be cancelled outright
KidLit Special: Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson talk teaming up on a distinctly Canadian YA novel
The friends chatted about writing as a duo, the new generation of LGBTQ2S+ advocates, and why the time is right for writers to be proud of that other misunderstood identity: Canadian.
KidLit Special: Lindsay Wong on her forthcoming “raunchy, hilarious” young-adult fiction
My Summer of Love and Misfortune follows the social misadventures of wild New Jersey high-school senior Iris Wang, who is sent to Beijing to learn how to be Chinese.
Kidlit Special: Raising an activist, one book at a time
Four new spring releases provide the language, questions, and role models necessary for raising engaged citizens.
Kidlit Special: Jeremy Tankard and his daughter give Hamlet’s Yorick his own history – and a poetic voice
The father-daughter graphic-novel collaboration is about a dog that finds a skeleton, featuring references from Shakespeare.
Wattpad Books takes a unique community-minded approach to editing
Wattpad’s publishing program selects serialized stories from the site to develop into print titles, hoping to leverage the reading app’s incredibly loyal user base into serious sales numbers.
I Read Canadian Day is ready for its close-up
In its inaugural year, this books for young people initiative overcame a non-existent budget and labour strikes to make a day that celebrates Canadian authors and illustrators.
Forest of Reading Festival may be a casualty of ongoing education labour dispute
Labour action has already affected the way the Forest of Reading book clubs work and if it’s not settled by April 1, the whole event could be cancelled
Toronto school board to give every Grade 6 student a copy of Hana’s Suitcase
Written by Karen Levine, the book has won numerous awards and has been beloved and studied over the past 18 years, telling the story of siblings George and Hana Brady in the 1930s and the Japanese educator who sought out their story in 2000.
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