When it comes to finding books for kids, sometimes the right choice is a story written by their peers. Every year since 2012, Ripple Foundation has run a creative writing contest, Kids Write 4 Kids, ... Read More »
July 8, 2020
For the past two years, Penguin Random House Canada has run a summer reading club for middle-graders called Camp Penguin. The club encourages kids to read from a curated list of entertaining books over the ... Read More »
June 25, 2020
In 2014, Annick Press published Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics, by Marilee Peters, which gives insight into historical infectious disease outbreaks, including the Great Plague of London in 1665, Yellow Fever in ... Read More »
June 19, 2020
On June 19, there will be a #KidLit4BlackLivesCanada rally sponsored by the Toronto bookstore A Different Booklist and kidlit publisher Groundwood Books. The event will take place on A Different Booklist's Facebook Live channel and ... Read More »
June 17, 2020
When Christian Johnston hosted a recent Facebook Live reading of his first children’s book, Gary the Seagull (Nimbus Publishing, June), he was worried that fans of his decidedly grown-up music were going to post inappropriate ... Read More »
June 8, 2020
Leave it to J.K. Rowling to pull a story out of thin air, just when we need it most. With zero advance warning, Rowling is releasing the first two chapters of a never-published serialized story, ... Read More »
May 26, 2020
Instead of the huge three-day event at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto (and satellite events in London and Kitchener-Waterloo), this year's Forest of Reading festival will take place online. While the lockdown measures from COVID-19 would ... Read More »
May 25, 2020
Telling Tales, the popular Hamilton children's book festival, has launched this year's lineup with a video, emceed by Kevin Sylvester. The main festival will happen online on Sunday, September 20; meanwhile, a new Telling Tales ... Read More »
May 25, 2020
Canadian children's publishing veteran Patsy Aldana has been named the 2021 Carle Honors Honoree in Mentorship, as part of the annual awards given out by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, ... Read More »
May 4, 2020
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has announced this year’s pick for the 20th anniversary of the popular TD Grade One Book Giveaway. In September, every Grade One child in Canada will receive a copy of ... Read More »
April 27, 2020
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