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Read an Excerpt from Seth Klein's Groundbreaking Climate Crisis Solution Guidebook, A Good War

As Canada - and the world - stares into a future made unsustainable by the climate crisis, the biggest question is simply: How? How can we solve a problem that feels overwhelmingly unsolvable, all while ...

Short is Beautiful

Don’t get me wrong, I like to lose myself in a big, fat novel.  My first and still-favourite author is Charles Dickens.  Not long ago I managed to get through Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and a couple ...

Contest: Win Spectacular Reads for Kids & Teens from The Word on the Street!

If you've got young readers in your life, or if you just love to connect with the young reader in yourself, this is your chance to scoop up four fantastic stories. Courtesy of The Word on the Street, ...

Stories of the North

There’s no consensus on where Southern Ontario ends and Northern Ontario begins. Some say the French River north of Parry Sound is the unofficial border. Others believe the north begins at the town ...

Stories of the North

There’s no consensus on where Southern Ontario ends and Northern Ontario begins. Some say the French River north of Parry Sound is the unofficial border. Others believe the north begins at the town ...

A Wolf at the Dog Show

If you’re reading this article you are no doubt familiar with the names of major publishers and their imprints—Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Knopf, Mcclelland and Stewart, etc.  You might ...

"Great Books Will Find a Way In" Jon-Erik Lappano on His New Picture Book & the Magic of Writing for Kids

Remember the collection you had as a kid? Maybe it was seashells or marbles, Barbies or bandanas, but nearly every kid went through a phase of excitedly collecting something - and every new acquisition ...

Book Therapy: Farzana Doctor’s Seven

 “As I slip into slumber, listening to my girl breathing beside me, a sensation of well being settles over my skin like a silk sheet.”-Farzana Doctor, SevenThe closer we got to September, the less ...

"Your Past Inhabits Your Present" Emily Urquhart on Why Creativity Has No Age Limit

There's no age limit on creativity, and yet there's often an assumption that the most innovative and vital work comes from the young. Bestselling author and journalist Emily Urquhart doesn't buy that ...

Picture Book Magic

People are often surprised to learn that a picture book begins with the words.  But every children’s book editor I’ve met has preferred to read a picture-book manuscript without any images.  A good ...