CBC has announced the longlist for next year's Canada Reads, its annual debate in which panelists each champion a Canadian title as the best of a particular theme or category. The 2016 faceoff will feature ... Read More »
Quill & Quire’s editors recently weighed in with their opinions on the best and most notable books of 2015. Apparently that wasn't enough to stem the flow of best-book year-end lists from continuing to appear ... Read More »
December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Books of the Year
Merriam-Webster fails to look up the definition of "suffix," makes "ism" its word of the year. (NPR) The number of Chicago high schools with a 90 per cent or more African American student body that ... Read More »
December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
First Generation Films has announced it has optioned television rights to Toronto comics artist Jeff Lemire's Essex County, a trilogy of short graphic novels published by Georgia-based Top Shelf Productions. Aaron Martin (Degrassi: The Next ... Read More »
Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Margaret MacMillan, along with Montreal photographer Velibor Božović, will join a roster of more than 222 authors from India and abroad at the 2016 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, which runs ... Read More »
December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Events
Steven Spielberg is adapting Roald Dahl's The BFG for film: watch the teaser. (Flavorwire) BBC is in hot water after claiming Lewis Carroll may have been a "repressed pedophile" in recent documentary. (The Telegraph) Wab ... Read More »
December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Toronto-based plasticine artist and picture-book creator Barbara Reid has been chosen as the honorary chair of next year's family literacy day. Founded by non-profit ABC Life Literacy Canada, the Jan. 27 event aims to promote ... Read More »
December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Deals
First Book Canada, the non-profit literacy organization, donated its one millionth book of the year at a special reading celebration in partnership with Corus Entertainment on Dec. 14. A second grade student from Toronto was ... Read More »
December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book news
Retroactive backstory almost ruined Star Wars (Lit Reactor) ... ... but creating a "forever" franchise is good marketing. (Publishing Perspectives) Homeless man writes a bestseller about his life on the streets. (The Telegraph) Salman Rushdie ... Read More »
December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Toronto's Kids Can Press has announced the sale of more than 100,000 copies of B.C.-based picture-book author Ashley Spires' The Most Magnificent Thing since the title's publication in April 2014. The inspirational story follows a ... Read More »
December 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book news
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