From the Calgary Herald: After a hiatus from library shelves, a controversial novel is being welcomed back into Calgary Catholic School District schools. The Golden Compass, a decade-old novel by Philip Pullman, was pulled from ... Read More »
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Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »
The latest salvos in the Amis/Eagleton polemic come from the increasingly rancorous novelist himself, who penned an earnest rebuttal in Saturday's Guardian “ "No, I am not a racist," pleads the headline “ and then ... Read More »
December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Book 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
English writer Philip Pullman kicked off the Particles of Narrative children's literature symposium on Friday by speaking to an audience of about 400 in the University of Toronto's Earth Sciences auditorium. The audience was a ... Read More »
October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors
Students at Highfield Junior School in Toronto won Scholastic Canada's Kids Are Authors competition with their book Counting on Zero. The prize is normally worth $1,000, but for the tenth anniversary of the competition the ... Read More »
October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »
September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
MtvU, a branch of MTV that broadcasts on 750 U.S. college campuses, announced this week that it has chosen its first poet laureate, The New York Times reports. And while names such as Bob Dylan ... Read More »
August 29, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Monday was the deadline for former students of native residential schools to opt out of a $2-billion compensation package offered by the federal government for abuses they suffered while attending the schools. (Accepting compensation means ... Read More »
August 22, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Ed Carson, who stepped down from his position as president of Penguin Group Canada in May, is starting a new job as chief business and associate director at the University of Toronto School of Continuing ... Read More »
June 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news