The CCBC takes over the administration of the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award.
Todd Stewart wins 2023 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
Stewart won the $1,000 prize for his work on Jean E. Pendziwol’s Skating Wild on an Inland Sea.
Greystone Kids wins 2024 Bologna Prize
Vancouver’s Greystone Kids was named the North America winner for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Sydney Smith wins prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award
Smith is the first Canadian to win the annual prize awarded by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY).
Drawn & Quarterly and Greystone Kids among finalists for 2024 Bologna Prize
The annual prize is awarded to a publisher “at the forefront of innovation in their activity for the creative nature of the editorial choices they have made during the previous year.”
2023 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award finalists revealed
The winner will be announced on March 30 at the IBBY Canada annual meeting of members.
Sydney Smith shortlisted for 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award
The award is given every year by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) to “an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children’s literature.”
Erin Bow receives Newbery Honor
Bow’s middle-grade story was one of five novels to receive the prestigious John Newbery Medal Honor.
Kids Can Press marks 50 years of children’s publishing
Apparent restrictions imposed on 2SLGBTQ+ books at Ontario’s Waterloo Catholic District School Board
Challenges to books in libraries and schools are common, and restrictions and removals are not a new occurrence in Canada, but there has never been any previous public awareness of restrictions imposed on books that are part of the FoR program.
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