The Latest
Recent Posts
Books Beat Boredom: 8 Things for Your Kids to Do this Summer
Engaging titles that also suggest amazing ways to engage with and have fun in the natural world.
Super Summer Reading Guide
20 titles that are sure to delight you.
Your 2019 Guide to Summer Literary Festivals
Good things are happening across the country!
Leading Students on a Path of Self-Discovery: Sadia by Colleen Nelson
As a fifteen-year-old adjusting to life in high school, Sadia begins to realize that growing up in Winnipeg brings many challenges. Balancing school work, …
The Chat with Kris Bertin
Kris Bertin is back. The Halifax-based writer’s highly anticipated second collection of short fiction, Use Your Imagination! is out now with Nimbus …
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Text to Text
As part of the Language curriculum, primary readers are asked to make connections between books, identifying similarities. The following titles are paired …
Fiercely Feminist Fiction
Books with fierce female leads and a bone to pick with the patriarchy.
The Chat with Nancy Jo Cullen
We celebrate Pride month in conversation with Nancy Jo Cullen, author of the fabulous debut novel The Western Alienation Merit Badge (Buckrider/Wolsak …
How to Die Like a Roman Emperor
"To learn how to die, according to the Stoics, is to unlearn how to be a slave."
Drunken Chicken Wings: from Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune
"Love and inebriation produce the same effects: bouts of joy and impaired decision making."