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Books with buzz worth sharing: Mordecai, Rubinstein, Alexis, Webb-Campbell, Wight, Bach, Lawson and Smith.
Authors for Indies: It's This Saturday!
Authors for Indies is this excellent event where Canadian writers, in support of our country's brilliant indie bookstores, go in on May 2 to handsell …
Look Up! Amazing Books About Animals and Habitats
It can be easy, in our increasingly online hours, to lose sight of the majesty of our natural world and its animals and habitats. The following books, …
Genevieve Graham on Quintessentially Canadian: From Oddball to Awesome
CanLit is huge and splendiferous, as the author of Tides of Honour demonstrates.
Great Companions
As fascinating as books themselves are the connections between books, the curious ways in which books inform and echo each other, creating strange synergies …
Magnetic North, by Jeff Norton
How an author's memories influenced the final book in his YA fantasy series.
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Poetry Books
Because Canadian children's poetry doesn't begin and end with Alligator Pie, Julie Booker offers up some excellent titles for National Poetry Month.
How Frieda Wishinsky Found Avis Dolphin
On finding the story inside history, and bringing it alive for kids.
Clifford Jackman on Historical Fiction
The author of new novel The Winter Family with a list of novels that take us back—often to the Old West and a wild frontier.
Quick Hits: Strange and Otherworldly
This week's Quick Hits looks at books that delve into magic, otherness, and the extraordinary.