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October 15, 2020Activist Jamal Saeed's Astonishing Story of a Young Girl Coming of Age in the Arab Spring is Essential Reading
Yara's childhood has been a complicated one: growing up in Aleppo, Syria, as a revolution brewed meant a tense and unpredictable existence. And when the Arab Spring unfurls, it means violence on a scale ...
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March 02, 2021Maria Birmingham's Snooze-O-Rama Introduces Young Readers to the Fun of STEM with Wonderfully Weird Animal Facts
Every parent has a bedtime routine for their little ones. But what about their animal friends? What is bedtime like for them?It's a question Maria Birmingham answers in her charming and funny Snooze-O-Rama: ...
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May 30, 2025Bindu Suresh's New Novel, The Road Between Us, is a Complex Lover’s Knot of a Novel that Spans Continents and Decades
Seasoned journalist Bindu Suresh has written hundreds of articles for various newspapers, and has a wealth of lived-in experience in unique cities around the world. All of which is on full display in ...
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March 18, 2026Kelsey McIver Explores the Magic of ST. PATRICK'S DAY in a New Nonfiction Book for Young Readers
A familiar holiday gets a closer look in this accessible introduction to its origins and meaning. In St. Patrick’s Day (Saunders Book Company) young readers are invited to go beyond parades and green ...
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April 19, 2022"Only a Grandma Could" Shenaaz Nanji on Joyfully Celebrating Identity & Culture Against Bullying & Prejudice
Everyone can remember the dread of walking in to a new situation as a kid – especially if you're the only one who's new. For Alina, in Shenaaz Nanji's newest book Alina in a Pinch, moving to a new ...
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February 18, 2020What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Becoming a Children's Book Creator?
I’ve worked in children’s publishing for nearly fifteen years and I’ve been writing children’s books for about five years. All this to say, I learned a lot about the realities of publishing children’s ...
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July 30, 2018
On Staying Hungry
One night after a reading years ago, before any of us had published a book, I and another writer I know gave a third writer friend a pretty hard time about not wanting to submit stories to magazines. ...
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January 26, 2017The Entitled Interview, with Ray Michalko
Former RCMP employee turned private eye Ray Michalko has spent hundreds of hours investigating cases of missing and murdered women along the infamous Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert ...
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September 26, 2015Welcome to the Non-Literal World
Recently, when I was in the park with my son, he found me a stone (as he often does). He presented it to me. We’re in the finding and naming stuff stage, so I told him, “stone.” He said, “No. ...
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January 28, 2021Meet Our February 2021 Writer-in-Residence, Acclaimed Writer & Filmmaker Christene A. Browne
Christene A. Browne's powerful novel Philomena (Unloved) (Second Story Press), tells the story of the titular Philomena, from her life as a young girl on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat to her time ...
