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Summer Eats: Wild Blueberry & Pomegranate Limeade Ice Pops

by Emily Lycopolus

A Recipe from the Revised and Updated Edition of The Olive Oil and Vinegar Lover’s Cookbook

The Chat with Anthony De Sa

We continue our summer edition of The Chat in conversation with Toronto writer Anthony De Sa. His new novel, Children of the Moon, takes us back to twentieth-century …

Most Anticipated: 2019 Fall Fiction Preview

by 49th Shelf Staff

The novels, story collections, and drama that readers will be loving in the second half of 2019. 

Shelf Talkers: Marilyn Monroe, YA Romance, Magic Basketball, and More

In a lot of ways, reading is the perfect summer reading project: you get to accomplish something AND you don’t have to break a sweat in doing it! You …

Books Beat Boredom: 8 Things for Your Kids to Do this Summer

by Kerry Clare

Engaging titles that also suggest amazing ways to engage with and have fun in the natural world. 

Super Summer Reading Guide

by Kerry Clare

20 titles that are sure to delight you. 

Your 2019 Guide to Summer Literary Festivals

by Kerry Clare

Good things are happening across the country! 

Leading Students on a Path of Self-Discovery: Sadia by Colleen Nelson

by Geoffrey Ruggero

As a fifteen-year-old adjusting to life in high school, Sadia begins to realize that growing up in Winnipeg brings many challenges. Balancing school work, …

The Chat with Kris Bertin

Kris Bertin is back. The Halifax-based writer’s highly anticipated second collection of short fiction, Use Your Imagination! is out now with Nimbus …

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Text to Text

by Julie Booker

As part of the Language curriculum, primary readers are asked to make connections between books, identifying similarities. The following titles are paired …

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