Booksellers are well aware that most children’s book purchases are made by card-carrying grownups. What happens to those books once they leave the store has traditionally been the buyers’ own business. No one checks to ... Read More »

It seems everyone wants a piece of the growing Canadian children’s book industry. After discerning a gap in the children’s market for early chapter books set in Canada, The Books Collective, in Edmonton, hopes to fill ... Read More »

A new initiative by the Nova Scotia Arts Council has sent writers from across the province back to school this fall.The Arts inFusion program, one of seven education-based arts projects funded by the J.W. McConnell ... Read More »

A marketing executive with a major educational publisher recounts a chance meeting with two colleagues at a social function over the holidays. One was from Prentice Hall Canada, the other, Addison Wesley Longman Canada. While ... Read More »

Lobster Press, whose first four picture books arrive in bookstores this fall, has probably the highest and most spectacular offices in Canadian publishing. That’s right in keeping with the ambitions of publisher and “main lobster” ... Read More »

When Key Porter Books president Susan Renouf realized that her son, an avid reader who’s undeniably “hooked on horror,” was losing interest in Goosebumps titles, she was intrigued.So last year, Renouf began work on an ... Read More »

Coke isn’t just a product you find in the school cafeteria anymore – it’s made its way into some classrooms via supplementary learning materials created and distributed by Coca-Cola Ltd.Corporate involvement in schools has been ... Read More »

Nelvana’s purchase of Kids Can Press marks the first time in Canada that an entertainment company has bought a publishing house – but it almost certainly won’t be the last.Days after the deal closed, Nelvana ... Read More »