WCA Deal Report for March 7, 2025
- Editorial director David A. Robertson at Swift Water Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group, has acquired world rights to acclaimed Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s CANADA, to be illustrated by Anishinaabe artist Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley. The picture book is based on a poem by the late Richard Wagamese in which an Indigenous child struggles with a school assignment that asks, “What makes you proud to be Canadian?” and calls on the strength of their ancestors to find the answer. The poem speaks to a new generation of Indigenous children, and welcomes everyone to honour the past, find belonging here and now, and look toward the future in this place now called Canada. Publication is expected for March 2026. Chris Casuccio and John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists represented Wagamese, and Jackie Kaiser at Westwood Creative Artists represented Pawis-Steckley.
