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Fabulous, Funny Picture Books: A List by Naseem Hrab

"An exceptional horse, a dead rabbit and a big hat walk into a bookstore...."

The Chat with 2017 Governor General's Award winner Cherie Dimaline

Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves is this year’s English-language Governor General’s Award winner for Young People’s Literature.

The Chat with Governor General's Nonfiction Award Winner Graeme Wood

Graeme Wood's The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State is this year’s Governor General's Award winner for English-language nonfiction. …

The Chat with Governor General's Fiction Award Winner Joel Thomas Hynes

Today we chat with Joel Thomas Hynes, author of the novel We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night. It’s this year’s English-language Governor General’s …

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Citizenship

How do you inspire kids to be good citizens? How do you launch a student’s understanding of rights and responsibilities?

Seeds of a Story: I Am Not a Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis

"I wanted to inspire all people to use Indigenous children’s literature as a means to begin to have frank, honest discussions about the injustices that …

Michelle Berry's Hand-Sells

Author of The Prisoner and the Chaplain on her favourite titles to sell at Hunter Street Books. 

Seeds of a Story: Part 2

Nominees for the Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards tell us about the places from which inspiration for their stories grew. 

The Chat with Governor General's Award for Drama Winner Hiro Kanagawa

"Indian Arm is a timely and evocative manifestation of the characters’ struggle with their relationship to the land,” said the peer assessment committee …

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