The Funeral, Matt James’ debut children’s book as illustrator and author, has racked up five starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness.
“James uniquely and playfully captures the particularities of a child’s perspective” –Booklist
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, from award-winning author Kim Fu, has garnered positive reviews since publishing in February of this year. See below for quotes from Quill & Quire, The Stranger and, The New York Times.
Not only did Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms from author Robert Paul Weston and illustrator Misa Saburi get a starred review on Booklist, it was featured as the Review of the Day on their homepage for January 22, 2018!
Stacey Matson follows up her acclaimed, internationally-published Life of a Total Genius trilogy with a new standalone middle grade novel, THE CONFIDENTIAL COOPER FILE, about a boy who believes his grandfather, disappearing into Alzheimer’s, is actually the infamous – and never caught – hijacker DB Cooper, and sets out to prove it, to Anne Shone at Scholastic Canada for publication in fall 2019 (world excluding US) by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists.
We’re thrilled to see David Chariandy’s Brother and Mark Sakamoto’s Forgiveness on the 2018 Canada Reads longlist!
This year’s longlisted titles speak to the theme: One Book to Open Your Eyes. These books challenge readers to look differently at themselves, their neighbours and the world around them.
Congratulations to Life on the Ground Floor author James Maskalyk and In the Name of Humanity author Max Wallace, both shortlisted for the seventeenth RBC Taylor Prize.
The 17th annual prize will be awarded Mon Feb 26th at a gala luncheon. The Prize consists of $30,000 for the winner and $5000 for each of the finalists.
Ruth Marshall’s hilarious memoir with a very long title, Walk It Off: The True and Hilarious Story of How I Learned to Stand, Walk, Pee, Run, and Have Sex Again After a Nightmarish Diagnosis Turned My Awesome Life Upside Down, is off to a great start. Since publishing in January of this year, it has been featured on Elle Canada‘s “Four Must-Reads on Our Bookshelf this Month” and Bustle‘s “16 Best Nonfiction Books Of January 2018 To Get You Ready For The Year.” Marshall also appeared on CTV’s Your Morning and Global News’ The Morning Show to talk about the incredible and often humorous experience that inspired her book.
Desmond Cole, acclaimed journalist and author of the award-winning article, “The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black,” has been awarded the 2017 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for freedom of expression. The award honours those “whose work has advanced freedom of expression in Canada.”
In his documentary Desmond explores what it is to be black in Canada in the 21st. The Skin We’re In aired on CBC in 2017 and can be viewed here.
Congratulations to Mark Raboy whose work, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Physics World’s Book of the Year. A review of the book that appeared in the February issue of Physics World calls it, “a major and long overdue biography that combines archival sources and publications to create a highly readable and fascinating insight into the public and private aspects of Marconi’s life.”
We’re kicking 2018 off on the right foot (so punny): Happy book birthday to the hilarious and inspirational Ruth Marshall, author of Walk It Off: The True and Hilarious Story of How I Learned to Stand, Walk, Pee, Run, and Have Sex Again After a Nightmarish Diagnosis Turned My Awesome Life Upside Down. Click here to listen to Ruth’s interview on The Current where she talks about her journey post-diagnosis and her laugh-out-loud funny memoir.
