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Top Shelf: Best of Julie Booker's Notes From a Children's Librarian
For quite some time, Ms. Julie Booker, children's librarian and author of the critically acclaimed Up Up Up, has been knocking out incredible posts for …
Eliza Robertson's Red Letter Day
Today it's Eliza Robertson's Red Letter Day. The Journey-Prize-nominated author has a new short story collection coming out soon, Wallflowers, and has …
Karen Hofmann: Barefoot Girls and Wild Women
Canadian books with female characters who break the rules, ignore decorum, sin, err, shoot at people, take off their shoes in public, love who they shouldn’t, …
Kate Pullinger on Landing Gear
The Governor-General's Award-winning author talks about her latest novel.
Mystery Month: Sarah Weinman on "CanCrime"
Critic Sarah Weinman on domestic suspense, its Canadian connections, Canadian crime fiction as a genre, and new books in 2014.
The Recommend: May 2014
This week we're pleased to present the picks of Steve Stanton, author and president of Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors; …
Fun Poetry for Kids
Let's take a moment to highlight the poetry collections that tend to be read most voraciously, collections that are read and reread, whose poems are memorized …
Behind the Poem: “N’s evening raga,” from children of air india
Renée Sarojini Saklikar shares the story of one particular poem from children of air india, which provides insight into the collection as a whole.
Stephanie Domet's Red Letter Day
It's Red Letter Day, and this week, Stephanie Domet gives us her book picks, some serious food cravings, and a reminder of how awesome The Weakerthans …
On Our Radar
New books by Ray Robertson, Gillian Wigmore, Dan Falk, Julie Joosten, and Becky Citra.