Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming April titles
How the movie adaptation of Indian Horse stayed true to Richard Wagamese’s voice
It was his voice that caught her attention. On a Friday in early 2012, Christine Haebler, a producer at Screen Siren Pictures, was driving to work when she heard Richard Wagamese on CBC Radio talking to host Shelagh Rogers about Indian Horse, his novel about an Ojibwe boy named Saul who is traumatized at a residential school and finds possible salvation through hockey.
Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications changes hands
A quarter-century after appearing on the Prairies publishing scene in Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications is seeing changes in its leadership.
Kobo acquires audio rights to Plum Johnson’s They Left Us Everything; film/TV rights for Deborah Campbell’s A Disappearance in Damascus
Distribution change: Georgetown Publications
Distribution change: Holiday House
Revisiting The Landing with John Ibbitson, 10 years later
Ten years after winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for children’s literature, the historical YA novel The Landing by John Ibbitson is being reissued by Kids Can Press, with all the proceeds going to a great cause: the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
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