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Children's publishing

CCBC adds new nonfiction prize to 2025 awards program

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre announced the establishment of a new award – the Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction.

Winners of the 2024 CCBC Book Awards revealed

The $50,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the largest cash prize in Canadian children’s literature, was awarded to Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrated by Todd Stewart.

IBBY Canada launches educators’ resource for Indigenous picture book collection

The new resource aims to help schools and libraries connect with the books in the catalogue in a more substantial way.

Author Valerie Sherrard named 2024 New Brunswick literary arts laureate

Sherrard has written more than 30 books for young readers, including the DCB titles Birdspell (2021), More than Words (2023), and the forthcoming An Unbalanced Force.