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Books: Help to Make the Season Right
Books have the potential to make everything that's wrong with Christmas right, to make gift-giving about more than acquisition and stuff.
Lousy With It: Books to Make Your Skin Crawl (by Claire Tacon)
"Ever since Susanna Moodie wrote about “those wood-demons the black-flies, sandflies and musquitoes,” Canadian writing hasn’t shied away from things …
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.
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?"
From Sketch to Finish: Cassie McDaniel on illustrating Beto's Burrito
An illustrator on the process of getting art and words in sync
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 …
Dear Canadian Bookshelf Part 2: "He only ever reads books about the war." #GiveCDN
In which we ease young Derek's holiday shopping burden.
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." …
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...
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)