Last October, the Edmonton children’s writer Glen Huser travelled the length and breadth of Alberta during the province’s month-long Chrysalis Festival. The annual literary fest is a moveable feast, covering 100 communities and drawing an ... Read More »

It was supposed to be a fun way of teaching schoolchildren about copyright and intellectual property issues. Instead, Access Copyright’s “Captain Copyright” website ignited such protest that it was taken offline after only a few ... Read More »

In 2002, a 35-year-old Ontario grade-school teacher named Marina Cohen completed a manuscript for a children’s fantasy novel called Shadow of the Moon, about a universe plunged into darkness and a boy armed with a ... Read More »

Thomson Corp., owned by Canada’s richest family, is trying to strike what could be one of the largest publishing deals in recent memory – the sale of Thomson Learning. And the company’s plan to sell ... Read More »

As a boy growing up in Newfoundland in the 1950s, children’s author Kevin Major was crazy about the Hardy Boys series. Whenever he got his hands on a new title he would read it immediately ... Read More »