The Victoria, B.C., author’s talk was cancelled when a parent took issue with the fact that Harvey Milk was included in her new book; although the school board tells a different story.
Cole Pauls on his nerdy Yukon comic collection Dakwäkãda Warriors
Cole Pauls’s Dakwäkãda Warriors is a comic collection for Indigenous youth in his hometown of Haines Junction, Yukon.
Shamim Sarif’s new YA queer female spy hero saves women and children
In her thriller, The Athena Protocol, the novelist and film director acknowledges the consequences of violence, even when it’s for a good cause
Kidlit Special: How Bologna Prize-winning Comme des géants stands out
Varennes, Quebec, children’s publisher Comme des géants has distinguished itself on the world stage in just five years.
Kidlit Special: Turtle Island team continue to reframe the history of North America
Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger, the duo behind Turtle Island: The Story of North America’s First History, return with What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal.
Kidlit Special: Miss Lou and Rita Joe celebrated in new picture books
This fall, two influential poets are being celebrated in picture books: Louise Bennett Coverley in Nadia L. Hohn’s A Likkle Miss Lou and Rita Joe in I’m Finding My Talk, a response poem by Rebecca Thomas.
Kidlit Special: Wayde Compton adapts short story “The Blue Road” as graphic novel
Wayde Compton reimagined his 1999 short story about a protagonist who escapes the Great Swamp of Ink and journeys north along a blue brick path as a graphic novel, drawn by April dela Noche Milne.
Kidlit Special: Marie-Louise Gay on the 20th anniversary of Stella and Sam
Twenty years ago, Groundwood Books published Stella, Star of the Sea, introducing readers to Marie-Louise Gay’s unforgettable sibling duo: the… Read More »
Book Centre announces Bibliovideo, a hub for Canadian kidlit content
The YouTube channel will feature author interviews, read-alongs, illustrator demonstrations, book trailers, reviews, and more.
The 2020 Forest of Reading nominations shine a light on the best in Canadian kidlit
Books by Kenneth Oppel, Jonathan Auxier, Kyo Maclear, Faith Erin Hicks, and more will be read and voted on by students in Ontario.
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