This weekend, Fort York will celebrate not just the country’s culinary past, but the future of cookbook writing and publishing at the inaugural Canada’s Table event.
Heather Smith, Eric Walters, and Kevin Sylvester receive multiple Forest of Reading nominations
Over 270,000 readers will participate through schools, libraries, literacy centres, and at home – and vote for their favourites in April.
Amazon Canada teams up with First Book Canada for a $100,000 book giveaway
Customers who buy a book from Amazon.ca between now and Oct. 23 will be taking part in a new initiative that will put $100,000 worth of new books into the hands of children this holiday season.
Woozles, Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore, is turning 40
When Ann Connor Brimer and Brian and Liz Crocker opened Woozles in 1978, there were no bookstores for children in Halifax.
Personnel change: Derek Beaulieu named incoming director of literary arts at Banff Centre
Daily Deals: Mawenzi House acquires “Punjab Downton Abbey”; TV deal for Pauline Dakin memoir
Daily Deals: three-book deal for author-illustrator Ani Castillo
Increases to Canada Book Fund, copyright reform key discussions at Arts Day on the Hill
There was even more theatrical talk than usual on Parliament Hill thanks to the Canadian Arts Coalition’s annual cultural advocacy day on Oct. 2.
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