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Not the Next Nirvana: Geoff Pevere on Sloan
Critic Pevere on the lessons of Sloan's Canadian indie music success story.
Detachment: Maurice Mierau on Family, Adoption, and Memoir
November is Adoption Awareness Month. We talk to Maurice Mierau about his new book, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir.
The Recommend: November 2014
This week we're pleased to present the picks of author and magazine editor Gary Stephen Ross; YA author and Penguin Canada marketing and publicity manager, …
Seeds of a Story: Part Two
Part Two of our responses from Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards nominees on how their stories were inspired.
Seeds of a Story: Part One
On Thursday, the Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards will be presented in Toronto. We asked the nominees to tell us about the seeds of their stories, …
The Interruption: Arthur Slade Reads from The Hunchback Assignments
Celebrate Halloween with your kids with a scary reading from Arthur Slade's The Hunchback Assignments!
CanLit Is Terrifying
Fear not! (Or at least, fear less.) Here is your guide to a most Canadian bookish Halloween.
Notes From a Children's Librarian: Books About Disguises
October is the superb month for books about disguise, because of Halloween, of course, and because of how the whole outdoors is dressing up in glorious …
Books and Ghosts: Tomes of Terror
Books and ghosts: how could we not feature Mark Leslie's new book, Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries, on 49th Shelf during the week …
Charlotte Gray: On Medicare, and the Paradox of Tommy Douglas
Tommy Douglas, the longtime premier of Saskatchewan, was the father of medicare. Born almost exactly 110 years ago (Oct 20, 1904), he was an unlikely …