Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Saving face

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It’s a world full of good-looking children’s books. The freedom with which U.S. and European companies experiment with formats, paper engineering, and printing tricks has produced some wonderfully exuberant and inventive creations. Look at the ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Rediscovering the three Rs

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Edmonton's Aurora School is so traditional, its students had to blow the dust off their 50-year-old British-made textbooks before starting lessons last September. “All texts [for teaching English] these days are based on whole-language, and ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Raven Rock’s rising star

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Growing pains are setting in for Raven Rock Publishing, the children’s micro-press that Diane Brookes runs from her home in Yellowknife. Over its first few seasons Raven Rock issued only a handful of titles, but ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Overseas aid

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After attending the Zimbabwe International Book Fair last year, publisher Linda Weigl, of Weigl Educational Publishers in Calgary, left feeling as though “everything I thought I knew about what I did, didn’t apply there.”Weigl went ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Outward bound

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U.S. soil is hardly foreign territory for Canadian children’s book publishers. Houses like Annick Press and Tundra Books already earn about half their revenues south of the border. But with an ever-shrinking library market and ... Read More »

May 6, 2004