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Preoccupied by Time
A recommended reading list by Margaret Sweatman (author of The Gunsmith’s Daughter), who is appearing at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival's …
The Chat with Chelene Knight
Author Chelene Knight has returned with a new novel, Junie (Book*hug), which explores the life of a creative and observant child in 1930s Hogan’s Alley—a …
Five Vancouver Crime Fiction Knockouts
"Vancouver is a beautiful, glossy and glossed-over town, and much like a minor aristocratic character in a Golden Age British murder mystery, its good …
On Our Radar: Great HOW-TO Nonfiction for Fall
From mushroom foraging, to co-parenting after divorce, overcoming imposter syndrome, and talking about race, these are 10 great books with things to teach …
Books for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
This year, I want to invite you and your students to become readers of Indigenous literature.
Point of View
Picture books to inspire writing from different perspectives for Grades 1 to 3.
Studying the Canadian Long Poem
A recommended reading list by Sarah Ens (author of Flyway), who is appearing at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival's THIN AIR this year.
Good Old Predators Are So Obliging...
An excerpt from the new book I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn't Like.
Reading Widely, Like a Scavenger
Books that inspired as Rideout wrote her latest novel, The Sea Between Two Shores.
Seven Picture Books with Big Feelings
Help little ones learn to sit with big feelings