Finalists announced for Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards

The Canadian Children's Book Centre has announced the finalists for the seven major awards it administers. The finalists are: The TD Canadian Children's Literature Award ($30,000) Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington (Second ... Read More »

September 3, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Children's publishing

Thomas King, Bev Sellars among finalists for 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature

By Dory Cerny

Canadian charitable organization CODE has announced the finalists for the second annual Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature. A jury of Canadian authors, administered by the Canada Council of the Arts, selected ... Read More »

September 3, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Marvel kills off Wolverine, new English-language release coming from Haruki Murakami, and more

By Dory Cerny

Marvel's Wolverine to meet his (supposedly final) demise in four-part series Dystopian YA is teaching kids to embrace "right-wing libertarianism" NBC to air Bryan Cranston–produced comedy based on The Dangerous Book for Boys Nick Cannon: ... Read More »

September 3, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Emily Gould, Joseph Boyden, Anna Todd added to IFOA’s full line-up

By Julie Baldassi

Emily Gould, Joseph Boyden, and 46 others have been added to the full list for the International Festival of Authors’ 35th edition, which takes place Oct. 23 to Nov. 2. For the first time, the ... Read More »

September 2, 2014 | Filed under: Events

2013 Lane Anderson Awards nominees announced

By Julie Baldassi

The shortlists for the annual Lane Anderson Award have been announced, with three adult and three young reader titles in contention for the $10,000 prize in each category. The award recognizes the best Canadian science ... Read More »

September 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Eleanor Catton funds grant with prize winnings, diversity in comic books and more

By Julie Baldassi

Eleanor Catton uses prize earnings to establish grant to give writers time to read American Born Chinese graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang talks about the need for diverse books in his National Book Festival speech “From all ... Read More »

September 2, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Internet Archives and Flickr make massive trove of book images available

By Julie Baldassi

An American academic has teamed up with the Internet Archive and Flickr to create a massive, searchable trove of copyright-free images from books dating back to 1502. Kalev Leetaru, the Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University, ... Read More »

August 29, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Inside the profitable world of Dr. Seuss, Springsteen is the new boss of kidlit, and more

By Sue Carter

The Wall Street Journal looks inside Random House's lucrative Dr. Seuss empire Japanese publishers accuse Amazon of abusing its marketplace dominance Germaine Greer defends Amazon, believes ebooks should "cost pennies" Bruce Springsteen to adapt his ... Read More »

August 29, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Bernadette McDonald’s 2011 mountaineering history still reaping awards

By Julie Baldassi

Bernadette McDonald’s 2011 mountaineering history book Freedom Climbers has garnered yet another accolade. The French translation was awarded Grand Prize at the Salon du Livre de Montagne de Passy earlier this month. To date, the book, which ... Read More »

August 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Jeanette Winterson on Kate Bush, the poetry of Guantanamo Bay, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Jeanette Winterson: “Kate Bush used herself as an invention – something that interested me greatly as a strategy for both life and art” Reading the poetry of Adnan Latif, one of the first prisoners taken to Guantanamo ... Read More »

August 28, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

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