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Wilf Perreault at Work
An excerpt from In the Alley, a new book that celebrates prairie artist, Perreault.
Not the Next Nirvana: Geoff Pevere on Sloan
Critic Pevere on the lessons of Sloan's Canadian indie music success story.
Detachment: Maurice Mierau on Family, Adoption, and Memoir
November is Adoption Awareness Month. We talk to Maurice Mierau about his new book, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir.
The Recommend: November 2014
This week we're pleased to present the picks of author and magazine editor Gary Stephen Ross; YA author and Penguin Canada marketing and publicity manager, …
Seeds of a Story: Part Two
Part Two of our responses from Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards nominees on how their stories were inspired.
Seeds of a Story: Part One
On Thursday, the Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards will be presented in Toronto. We asked the nominees to tell us about the seeds of their stories, …
The Interruption: Arthur Slade Reads from The Hunchback Assignments
Celebrate Halloween with your kids with a scary reading from Arthur Slade's The Hunchback Assignments!
CanLit Is Terrifying
Fear not! (Or at least, fear less.) Here is your guide to a most Canadian bookish Halloween.
Notes From a Children's Librarian: Books About Disguises
October is the superb month for books about disguise, because of Halloween, of course, and because of how the whole outdoors is dressing up in glorious …
Books and Ghosts: Tomes of Terror
Books and ghosts: how could we not feature Mark Leslie's new book, Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries, on 49th Shelf during the week …