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Notes from a Children's Librarian: Canadian Heritage and Identity
Books to support the Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum.
Malcolm Squires: Canada Is a Forest Nation
We like to picture the boreal forest as a stable, balanced system. Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic.
The Chat With Grace O’Connell
In Be Ready for the Lightning, Grace O'Connell's second book, we meet Vancouverite Veda and follow her relationship with her troubled brother Conrad and …
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2017 Books for Young Readers Preview
The best in picture books, middle-grade and YA. (It's so good!)
Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea
The gorgeous result of a five year quest for Canadian nautical writings.
The Chat With Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
This week on the Chat, we’re in conversation with acclaimed writer and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of the superb new work This Accident …
The 13 Worst Holidays in Canadian Literature
Some very good reasons to stay home with a good book.
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2017 Poetry Preview
Our Fall Preview continues with poetry, and an exploration of the incredible array of books readers will fall in love with this year.
Summer Eats: Apricot Curd Tart
A delectable treat from new cookbook, The Okanagan Table.
Shelf Talkers: August Long Weekend, 2017
Perhaps the first time CanLit and mohito have been aligned in the same sentence.