Firefly Books editorial director Steve Cameron describes CBC’s Scout & the Gumboot Kids preschool TV show as “Wes Anderson–level stop motion animation meets really great nature facts.”
Books of the Year 2018: Kids’ books of the year
Q&Q’s Books for Young People editor shares her favourite children’s titles of 2018.
Books of the Year 2018: Kidlit aficionados pick their top titles
Librarians, book bloggers, and booksellers on some of the best children’s books of the year.
In Newfoundland, holiday choral performances are turned into kids’ books
Robert Chafe’s Shiny and New and Bernice Morgan’s Seasons Before the War began as Christmas concerts.
Rose Vespa named new executive director of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre
Vespa has spent her career in library services and in public sector leadership roles, including most recently as director of library services for the Mississauga Library System
Marianne Dubuc takes home all three awards at the TD-Canadian Children’s Book Centre gala
Andrea Torrey Balsara wins Literary Classics award
The Great & the Small is an illustrated YA fantasy novel in which rats rise up for a revolution against humans
A new way to take students on a Great Canadian Road Trip
Released in September, The Great Canadian Road Trip is a set of 13 books, each focused on a different Canadian province or territory and designed for Grades 4 to 6.
When first-time illustrator Derek Desierto met fashion icon Eva Chen
In their first book, Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, a young girl literally steps into the footwear of famous women, from Jane Goodall to Lady Gaga.
Troy Wilson’s The Sinking of Captain Otter is based on a story he wrote in Grade 1
For years, children’s book writer Troy Wilson has been carrying around a school project he made in Grade 1.
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