There are obvious advantages to standardizing educational curriculums, and Leslie Coolen can name a few.Coolen found out what courses she was teaching this school year the same week that classes began. A science teacher who ... Read More »

They may not be as well known – yet – as Michael Martchenko, Ian Wallace, Eugenie Fernandes, and other big-name Canadian children’s illustrators whose work is recognized worldwide, but a new wave of artists has ... Read More »

When Brian Puppa received a phone call recently from the Oprah Winfrey show, he was delighted, but not all that surprised. A producer for the show was working on an episode about grandparents, and it’s ... Read More »

Earlier this fall, about three million parents across North America received direct mail solicitations for a novel supplementary educational product known as Brighter Vision’s “Learning Adventures.” Each month, a child will be mailed a cardboard ... Read More »

An unprecedented $100-million pledged by the Ontario government for the purchase of new textbooks for elementary students has left educational publishers bending over backwards to say how glad they are to see the government spending ... Read More »

It wasn’t very long ago that children’s literature in Canada amounted to little more than one slim but very popular title: Anne of Green Gables.Now, as the National Library of Canada prepares to mark its ... Read More »

About six times a year, Jen Pickard, a Grade 2 and 3 teacher at Qualicum Beach Elementary School on Vancouver Island, hands out the latest catalogue from the Scholastic Book Club. The 21 students in ... Read More »

Having revived its children’s publishing program with the launch of a well-received debut list in November, Fitzhenry & Whiteside has ambitious plans for expanding its list in 1999. Drawing on the success of its new ... Read More »