by Nathan Whitlock

Way to Display! Beauty Queens at Kidsbooks on Broadway

Kidsbooks on Broadway in Vancouver has put up a kind of Lost meets Girls Gone Wild display for Brooklyn author Libba Bray's new YA novel Beauty Queens (Scholastic), about a bunch of teen beauty pageant ... Read More »

June 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Robert Munsch in Rigolet, Labrador

By Nathan Whitlock

The heroine of Robert Munsch's latest picture book, Give Me Back My Dad! (Scholastic Canada), was inspired by a young girl named Cheryl Allen whom Munsch met nearly two decades ago while on a fishing ... Read More »

June 8, 2011 | Filed under: Events

Tw’accuse! Rebecca Eckler takes to Twitter to protest missing payments from Key Porter

By Nathan Whitlock

With Senate page Brigette DePape's silent demonstration during last week's speech from the throne and the ongoing uprisings in the Middle East, the spirit of protest is definitely in the air. That spirit may have ... Read More »

June 6, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Event photo: monsters in Lower Bay Station for Mind Gap

By Nathan Whitlock

At the end of March, Dundurn Press hosted a group of schoolkids in Toronto's seldom-seen Lower Bay Station to celebrate the release of Marina Cohen's novel Mind Gap. Given that the novel involves scary, supernatural ... Read More »

April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Nick Garrison made executive editor at Penguin Canada

By Nathan Whitlock

Nick Garrison has been promoted to the position of executive editor for Penguin Canada. Garrison started with Penguin in July 2010 to oversee the Hamish Hamilton imprint while publisher Nicole Winstanley is on maternity leave. ... Read More »

March 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! Franklin’s 25th at Mabel’s Fables

By Nathan Whitlock

Loveably imperfect, fundamentally decent, and slightly neurotic young animal characters are pretty thick on the ground these days, but one of the true originals, Franklin the turtle, turns 25 this year. To celebrate the 25th ... Read More »

March 9, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events

Way to Display! “Pink Republic” by Flavio Trevisan at Type Books

By Nathan Whitlock

Artist Flavio Trevisan has a special installation in the window of Type Books on Queen St. West in Toronto. Using millboard, fibreboard, and acrylic paint, Trevisan has created a tactile map of downtown Toronto “ ... Read More »

March 2, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events

Event photos: Emma Forrest, James Bartleman, and Joy Fielding at Authors at Harbourfront

By Nathan Whitlock

On Feb. 24, Emma Forrest, James Bartleman, and Joy Fielding took to the stage (not all at once) at Toronto's Authors at Harbourfront series to read from their new books. (Photos courtesy of Random House ... Read More »

February 25, 2011 | Filed under: Events

Richler bio wins Charles Taylor Prize

By Nathan Whitlock

Charles Foran was awarded this year's $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for his biography Mordecai: The Life and Times (Knopf Canada) at a lunchtime ceremony in Toronto today. He beat out Stevie Cameron ... Read More »

February 14, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Might give teens violent ideas: the TPL’s 2010 list of challenged books

By Nathan Whitlock

Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the festivities today by releasing, on his Twitter feed, the 2010 report from the TPL's Materials ... Read More »

January 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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