Ainara Alleyne, host of the TVOkids series Ainara's Bookshelf, is set to launch Ainara's Book Club. The book club website will feature The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson, From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks, The ... Read More »
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) will oversee the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award (RACMA) as of this year. Created in memory of the late Richard Chase, a former teacher-librarian from Lethbridge, Alberta, the annual award ... Read More »
Illustrator Todd Stewart has won the 2023 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award. Each year, IBBY Canada awards $1,000 to a Canadian illustrator for “outstanding artistic talent” in a Canadian picture book. Stewart won for his ... Read More »
Vancouver publisher Greystone Kids has been named the North American winner of the 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year. The prize is awarded annually to children’s publishing houses that are ... Read More »
Sydney Smith has won the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. The award is given every year by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) to “an author and an illustrator whose ... Read More »
Finalists for the 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year have been revealed. In the North American category, Canadian publishers Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal) and Greystone Kids (Vancouver) have been named finalists ... Read More »