Toronto cartoonist, illustrator, and designer John Martz has been hired as art director at Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers.
Oliver Jeffers’s new book is what the world needs now
The bestselling children’s author-illustrator tries something new – unapologetically so.
2017 Books of the Year: Librarians’, book bloggers’, and booksellers’ kidlit and YA picks
Librarians, book bloggers, and booksellers weigh in with their favourite children’s books of the year.
Q&A: Cherie Dimaline on her award-winning week
The author of The Marrow Thieves found out she won the $50,000 Kirkus Prize as she was searching her desk for loose change for transit.
Celebrating Margie Wolfe of Second Story Press
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre brought together the publishing industry to honour a long-time feminist, social justice activist, and kidlit icon.
Q&A: Melanie Florence on her new picture book; worst-case scenarios; and going commercial
While Melanie Florence has written multiple works of fiction and non-fiction for children, the picture book genre is still new to her. It’s also where she’s having the greatest success.
Why Orca Books published Monique Gray Smith’s Speaking Our Truth
When Andrew Wooldridge, publisher at Orca Book Publishers, heard Marie Wilson, a commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, speak at the annual general meeting for the Association of Canadian Publishers last year, an idea took root.
Drawn & Quarterly opens second bookstore, this time for kids
Montreal graphica publisher Drawn & Quarterly opened its first designated children’s bookstore at the beginning of October, in honour of the tenth anniversary of its first store, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Kevin Sands on theoretical physics, smoke bombs, and the biggest compliment he’s received from a fan
Toronto author Kevin Sands had earned two degrees in theoretical physics and was toiling away as a researcher and teacher before writing his first middle-grade novel, The Blackthorn Key (Simon & Schuster Canada).
Offensive teaching material from Second Story Press still available online
Second Story Press was quick to pull an ESL teaching guide that included racist language from its website and apologized for causing “hurt and offence.”
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