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Jan 15, 2025 | 
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
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Quick Links Q&Q Omni Customer Service All content copyright Quill & Quire — Quill & Quire is a registered trademark of St. Joseph Media.
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May 16, 2024 | 
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The Ontario Library Association (OLA) and the Forest of Reading have announced the winners of the 2024 Forest of Reading Awards. The two-day event, which had an in-person and digital component, was hosted by Hamilton teen and book-club host Ainara Alleyne and comedian Ali Hassan. The winners are:Blue Spruce AwardBenny the Bananasaurus Rex by Sarabeth Holden (Inhabit Media Inc.)Silver Birch Express AwardRock? Plant? Animal?
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May 15, 2024 | 
quillandquire.com | Inderjit Deogun |Annick Press |Rosena Fung
Rosena Fung has been drawing and making comics since as early as she can remember – Grade 1, to be precise. She read the Archie Comics she inherited from her mom voraciously and knew immediately that “this is all I want to read and do.” In fact, it was her dream to be an artist for Archie Comics. But Fung’s path wasn’t linear. Social and family expectations coupled with personal pressures had Fung second-guess the viability of being an artist.
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May 2, 2024 | 
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Ainara Alleyne, host of the TVOkids series Ainara’s Bookshelf, is set to launch Ainara’s Book Club. The book club website will feature The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson, From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks, The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag, Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega, and Beatrice and Croc Harry by Lawrence Hill. “I’m thrilled with the launch of the companion website Ainara’s Book Club,” said Ainara Alleyne in the press release.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
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This month, 16-year-old Nathan Hellner-Mestelman – who directed, wrote, and produced the 2022 documentary short Universe Versus You screened at film festivals internationally – makes his literary debut with Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe (Linda Leith Publishing). The nonfiction young adult book shares with readers the story of the making, and expanding, of the universe.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
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The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) will oversee theRichard Allen Chase Memorial Award (RACMA) as of this year.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
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Illustrator Todd Stewart has won the 2023 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award. Each year, IBBY Canada awards $1,000 to a Canadian illustrator for “outstanding artistic talent” in a Canadian picture book. Stewart won for his work on Jean E. Pendziwol’s Skating Wild on an Inland Sea (Groundwood Books).
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
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When Willie Poll decided to make the transition from a full-time teacher to the director of education at the Moose Hide Campaign, a grassroots Indigenous organization aimed at ending gender-based violence, she had no idea it would inspire her latest picture book. At the organization’s annual campaign day, seeing co-founder Raven Lacerte speak in front of thousands moved Poll deeply. Lacerte was pregnant with her second daughter, and was joined on stage by her eldest child.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
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Vancouver publisher Greystone Kids has been named the North American winner of the 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year. The prize is awarded annually to children’s publishing houses that are most recommended in each of six geographical regions by publishers, publishers’ associations, and institutions devoted to reading promotion worldwide. The winners were announced on April 8 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
