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Video: @BookMadam's Hands On Holiday Book Recommendations #GiveCDN #HolidayGift
Julie Wilson shares some of the books she'll be turning to this holiday season to get into the hands on creative spirit.
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Dear Canadian Bookshelf Part 3: The Point of Reading #GiveCDN
"Could you recommend some books that will remind her that reading is a way like no other to come to know the world?"
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From Sketch to Finish: Cassie McDaniel on illustrating Beto's Burrito
An illustrator on the process of getting art and words in sync
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A reviewer walks into writers’ block (as in cellblock): Guest Post by Bob Armstrong
"I’ve been reviewing books and plays off and on for nearly 30 years and I haven’t always been gentle or even fair. What could I expect when I was …
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Dear Canadian Bookshelf Part 2: "He only ever reads books about the war." #GiveCDN
In which we ease young Derek's holiday shopping burden.
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Roughing It In the Books, or Everybody Dies in the End: Guest Post by Melanie Masterson
Of course it isn't true that everybody dies, but it feels like it sometimes, and it makes a much better subtitle than "Trees and Rocks and Rocks and Trees." …
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Meet Molito: Guest Post by Rosemary Sullivan
The story of Molito started as puppet theatre in Chile in 1974 in the dark days of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet...
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Book Madam's Quirky Recommended Reading Lists for #GiveCDN
49thShelf.com Host Julie Wilson and her wacky lists of recommended books for Give Canadian. (#GiveCDN)
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Dear Canadian Bookshelf: Helping You #GiveCDN this Holiday Season
Expert advice to help get your holiday shopping quandaries sorted.
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Garth Martens, 2010 Bronwen Wallace Award Winner: Readings and Readings
"A lot of men I know feel like intruders, on the sidewalk, in their skins."