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
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.
TD Children’s Literature Awards: a new host, Heather Smith wins big, and a funny faux pas
The $50,000 prize went to Smith’s middle-grade novel-in-verse Ebb & Flow while Jillian Tamaki won the CBC Fan Choice Award.
Small Victoria publisher makes Orange Shirt Day picture books when no one else would
Medicine Wheel Education founder Teddy Andersen on how The Orange Shirt Story and Phyllis’s Orange Shirt came to be and the impact they’re having on children in this country.
The story behind Heather Smith’s tsunami picture-book story
When the kidlit author heard about Itaru Sasaki’s disconnected phone booth and how it helped the people of Otsuchi, Japan, she knew instantly that the story would make a powerful children’s book.
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