by Shanda Deziel

Whoopi Goldberg adds her voice to The Most Magnificent Thing film adaptation

Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg takes on the role of “Narrator” in Nelvana’s upcoming short-film adaption of The Most Magnificent Thing (Kids Can Press), the 2014 bestselling picture book by Delta, B.C.–author/illustrator Ashley Spires. The book, about a ... Read More »

October 12, 2018

Heather Smith, Eric Walters, and Kevin Sylvester receive multiple Forest of Reading nominations

By Shanda Deziel

The Ontario Library Association has released its much-anticipated list of nominees for the 2019 Forest of Reading program, now in its 26th year. Three authors received two nominations each: Heather Smith (Ebb & Flow; The Agony ... Read More »

October 11, 2018

Amazon Canada teams up with First Book Canada for a $100,000 book giveaway

By Shanda Deziel

Customers who buy a book from Amazon.ca between now and Oct. 23 will be taking part in a new initiative that will put $100,000 worth of new books into the hands of children this holiday ... Read More »

October 11, 2018

Woozles, Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore, is turning 40

By Shanda Deziel

For the last 40 years, on a small, tree-lined Halifax street – snug in a rambling old house painted a cheerful bright yellow – sits Woozles Children’s Bookstore, a popular destination in the city. Founded ... Read More »

October 11, 2018

Ten years of Telling Tales

By Shanda Deziel

This year, the Telling Tales Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary. A crowd and author favourite, the day-long, outdoor children's book festival takes place at Westfield Heritage Village in Rockton, Ont., on Sept. 16. Organizers are ... Read More »

September 10, 2018

Wendy Orr, Cherie Demaline, and Monique Gray Smith among CCBC Award finalists

By Shanda Deziel

The Canadian Children's Book Centre has announced the finalists in eight award categories, celebrating the best in Canadian children's literature. Not surprisingly, Town is By the Sea, by Joanne Schwartz and illustrator Sydney Smith, and ... Read More »

September 6, 2018

Raziel Reid follows up his acclaimed debut with a scathing satire about – and for – the social-media generation

By Shanda Deziel

Raziel Reid experienced more drama as a result of his 2014 debut novel, When Everything Feels Like the Movies, than most writers encounter in an entire career. He was the youngest person to win the ... Read More »

September 5, 2018

Common Deer Press launches children’s book writing contest

By Shanda Deziel

Common Deer Press is looking for the next Anne of Green Gables or Chronicles of Narnia. Co-owners Ellie Sipila and Kirsten Marion have issued a challenge to Canadian writers, calling it the "Uncommon Quest for a ... Read More »

July 25, 2018

How Geneviève Castrée’s posthumous A Bubble came to be

By Shanda Deziel

“In her final weeks alive, Geneviève clung to finishing this book for our daughter with intense focus and devotion. I think she was trying to cast a spell, to draw herself into survival. She didn’t ... Read More »

July 16, 2018

This week in CanKidLit: awards, residencies, and an Indigenous peoples atlas from Canadian Geographic

By Shanda Deziel

The winners of this year's Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards are Melanie Florence and Gabrielle Grimard for their picture book Stolen Words (Second Story Press) and Heather T. Smith for the YA novel ... Read More »

June 21, 2018

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