by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deal: Wallace Edwards, Terry Watada + seven more

Scholastic Canada’s Anne Shone has acquired world rights to Wallace Edwards’s Pigs Can’t Fly. The picture book from the GG-winning author-illustrator is described as showing through witty animal feats how the impossible might just be ... Read More »

January 5, 2023

Shop Talk: The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore

By Cassandra Drudi

Shop Talk is an occasional feature in which fledgling independent booksellers take Q&Q into their stores and share their reasons for opening and what business has been like so far. The Spaniel’s Tale Bookstore 1131 ... Read More »

January 4, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

After 22 years as a key member of the warehouse team, Catherine (Cathy) Emery is retiring from Penguin Random House Canada, effective December 22, 2022. Former marketing and publicity intern Fahima Chowdhury has joined the marketing and publicity ... Read More »

December 21, 2022

Louise Dennys stepping down as executive publisher and executive vice-president of PRHC

By Cassandra Drudi

Louise Dennys, whose career in the Canadian publishing industry spans five decades, will be stepping down from her role as executive publisher and executive vice-president at Penguin Random House Canada at the end of December. ... Read More »

December 21, 2022

Children’s author Aubrey Davis remembered as a captivating storyteller

By Cassandra Drudi

Children's author and storyteller Aubrey Davis, who published four award-winning picture books with Kids Can Press, is being remembered as an exuberant and captivating storyteller. Davis died on December 15, the Idries Shah Foundation announced. ... Read More »

December 19, 2022

Rights Deals: Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Jeremy Appel + seven more

By Cassandra Drudi

Véhicule Press’s Dimitri Nasrallah has acquired Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s Kilworthy Tanner. The novel is described as a “pseudobiography” that unravels the tangled narrative of his breakup with Kilworthy Tanner, his paramour and former mentor. The ... Read More »

December 19, 2022

Thomas Allen & Son closure reflects changing distribution landscape

By Cassandra Drudi

As he looks back on his 43 years in the book distribution business, Thomas Allen & Son president and CEO Jim Allen says that his decision to close the family-run business early next year was ... Read More »

December 14, 2022

Canada’s book community shares their favourite young readers titles of 2022

By Cassandra Drudi

For the second year in a row, the Q&Q team reached out to our reviewers and to booksellers and festival organizers across the country to find out which titles from 2022 they are still thinking ... Read More »

December 14, 2022

University of Toronto Press uniting publishing divisions under new leadership

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press is bringing its two publishing divisions, books and journals, together under the leadership of a vice president of publishing. Antonia Pop, who joined UTP’s journals division in 2010 and has led ... Read More »

December 14, 2022

Rights Deals: David Cole, Kuljinder Kaur Braur + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Common Deer Press’s Kirsten Marion has acquired world rights to the next three titles in David Cole’s The Math Kids series. The middle-grade fiction series is described as a fast-paced series that follows kids as ... Read More »

December 13, 2022

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