Q&Q's Deals page is on a holiday break, but we would be remiss if we didn't mention this deal, from The Globe and Mail's "The Biz" column: Rebecca Eckler has signed a deal for two ... Read More »
Search Results by tag: children's books
A handwritten book of fairy tales by J.K. Rowling was auctioned off for more than $4-million (Cdn) yesterday, and U.K. newspapers were full of speculation this morning as to who the deep-pocketed buyer was. As ... Read More »
December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Libraries
From The Telegraph: She wrote her first self-help book at the age of nine. Now, at the grand old age of 12, Libby Rees has completed her second. She finished At Sixes And Sevens, which ... Read More »
December 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Many of you faithful industry watchers have probably already heard tell of the short documentary that Indigo CEO Heather Reisman commissioned earlier this year about the "crisis" in school libraries. It's called Writing on the ... Read More »
And on it goes: another school board has pulled Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass from its shelves following a parental complaint “ this despite the fact that the book was published more than 10 years ... Read More »
Philip Pullman keeps running afoul of Ontario school boards. In what is looking like the most effective publicity campaign ignorance can buy, Pullman's The Golden Compass has been pulled from the shelves of school libraries ... Read More »
November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries
This week on Q&Q's Job Board: News Editor - Quill & Quire (Toronto, ON) Senior Publicist - Simon & Schuster Canada (Markham, ON) Marketing Associate, Children's Books - HarperCollins Canada (Toronto, ON) Publicist - Literary ... Read More »
November 22, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Marketing Associate, Children's Books (Toronto, ON) Publicist (Toronto, ON) Administrative Assistant (Toronto, ON) Print Promotions and Publicity Coordinator (Markham, ON) Book Marketing Coordinator (Toronto, ON) ...more here! Looking to ... Read More »
November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
According to a release from Sono Nis Press, author Nikki Tate was relieved to learn that Elizabeth School in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, which had previously banned her children's book Trouble on Tarragon Island, has reversed its ... Read More »
November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
The Toronto Star reports on two Canadian philanthropists who have traveled to Africa to see how their donations to an Ottawa-based literacy agency are being used in the fight against AIDS. Bill Burt and Judy ... Read More »
November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
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