Children's Literature Posts
Stories for Every Classroom
Canadian Fiction Portraying Characters with Disabilities
Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna
A Children's Classic at 100
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, …
Middle-Grade Mojo, by Jeff Norton
Jeff Norton on why middle-grade reading is so much fun—and so important.
Fairy Tales in Popular Culture
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Fun Poetry for Kids
Let's take a moment to highlight the poetry collections that tend to be read most voraciously, collections that are read and reread, whose poems are memorized …
"We Need to Keep Talking About Our Rights": Ken Setterington on Freedom to Read Week
49th Shelf spoke to author and children's librarian Ken Setterington about his own experiences with censorship, and the broader issues behind the Freedom …
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Reading British Columbia: Kids' Books
In Conversation With: Cheryl Foggo on the Personal, Political and Creating Space for Characters of Colour in Children's Literature
Cheryl Foggo talks about how her politicized outlook as a Black woman and her creative impulse as a writer have melded in her latest illustrated children's …