You can't get more #Canadian than this: Award-winning poet Jim Johnstone got into poetry via an old book once owned by a member of Rush. More coming this Sunday! 💙 📚 #booktok #bookstagram #IReadCanadian #poetry
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You can't get more #Canadian than this: Award-winning poet Jim Johnstone got into poetry via an old book once owned by a member of Rush. More coming this Sunday! 💙 📚 #booktok #bookstagram #IReadCanadian #poetry
"This brother, Akira, whom my mother and her siblings had not known existed, had been institutionalised as a young man at Essondale, the provincial asylum, before the war."
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Some great titles coming soon to the @allwriteinsincity podcast! Look for these amazing interviews, and our new look and sound, starting Sunday! 'Til then, check out our latest bonus episode, The Poet's Cookbook buff.ly/DiQVWSH 💙 📚 #booktok #bookstagram #IReadCanadian
Some great titles coming soon to the podcast! Look for these amazing interviews, and our new look and sound, starting this Sunday! 💙 📚 #booktok #bookstagram #IReadCanadian
Congratulations to our Willow Award nominees! THE LOVE SONG OF MR. BYRD by Philippa Dowding, RED FLAGS AND BUTTERFLIES by Sheryl Azzam, and WE BURY NOTHING by Kate Blair. @mandagroup.bsky.social
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Illustration of girl in shorts holding a notebook in front of a lying down dog, against a backdrop of city buildings.
Love how this early middle grade novel, THE ANXIOUS EXILE OF SARA SALT” shows how writing letters helps one girl make a difference to others and herself. A great read aloud for a junior classroom! 📚👍🏻 #cankidlit #kidlit #edusky #ireadcanadian @orcabook.bsky.social
"The Merry Widow Murders is a truly delightful read with buddy sleuth antics, a beautiful setting, the roaring 20s, and headstrong women." — Reader's Favorite
#ireadcanadian #canlit #mysterybook
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A book launch at Mabel's Fables, Toronto for three new Canadian children's books, written by Canadian women! Marsha Skrypuch's Still Alive, bk3 of Kidnapped from Ukraine, Lorna Schultz Nicholson's, The Man in Motion, and Anna Rosner's Last Year with Maddy! April 21, 6:30pm!
Come celebrate with us! Three Canadian women and their new books for young people! A triple book launch at Mabel's Fables, Toronto, on April 21 at 6:30pm. #booksky #Ireadcanadian #mglit
Congratulations Zilla Jones. The World So Wide has been selected as a distinguished 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist!
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Happy reading, and thanks again for supporting 🇨🇦 PB creators, eh!
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The box is here!!!
My copies of the first adventure of Fern & Newt, two best friends - "Fern and Newt and the Lost Loot" - an early reader chapter book from the Orca Echoes series.
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Happy Pub Day JULIA AND ROMANO by Eric Walters!
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Going live on #March20 with #gabrielleandtheemperor on #kobo and #kindle. Loads of action and a few parallels to current events. History just keeps repeating itself. #bookfour #finale #historicalfantasy #comingofagefiction #indieauthor #windsofchangeseries #inventionsnotmagic #ireadcanadian
You are invited to the launch of THE BREAKWATER by Leslie Shimotakahara. Please join us Wednesday, April 15, 5-7pm at Ben McNally Books in Toronto. There will be a short reading, refreshments, and a book signing. #IReadCanadian #BookLaunch2026
New books out this year and an incredible giveway! #kidlit #Ireadcanadian
Check out this excerpt of THE BREAKWATER at The Seaboard Review of Books
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TODAY! Ben McNally Books, 5-7pm
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Join us to celebrate the launch of THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG by Ray Robertson.
Wednesday, March 4, 5-7 p.m., Ben McNally Books, 108 Queen St E, Toronto
RSVP to rsvp@cormorantbooks.com
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Happy Publication Day BRIARWOOD and Natalie Hyde!
“An inventive, immersive celebration of curiosity, courage, and learning.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“The flip side of self-righteousness is self-awareness, and while we are drowning in the former, the latter is in regrettably short supply.”
—Steven Beattie, That Shakesperean Rag
#thatshakespereanrag #IReadCanadian #TheRighttoBeWrong
"Readers will revel in the fun and fantastical camp where campers live in the treetops, and everything from message delivery to the aerial walkway system is mechanized through a special kind of steam power." booknews (Canadian Children's Book Centre)
#IReadCanadian #middlegradelit #MiddleGradeReads
“Thank you!” written in script on an orange circle. On a white backdrop: Logos of The Writers’ Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts and the name “Carleton Place Public Library”. The book cover of the picture book, GREETINGS, FLOOF! and in script, “National Public Readings Program” on an orange banner. All are on a yellowish/orangish background.
Thanks so much to the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers’ Union of Canada for funding my author visit! Huge thanks to the Carleton Place Public Library for hosting and promoting the fun event!
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Freedom to Read: Why Society Needs Intellectual Risk. Feb 25, 6:30pm, Alumni Hall, Toronto. Meet Ray Robertson, Jessica Johnson, and Ira Wells.
#FreedomToRead #IReadCanadian
Join us for the launch of THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG by Ray Robertson. Wednesday, Feb 18, 5-7pm at Ben McNally Books, 108 Queen St. E., Toronto.
#IReadCanadian #BookLaunch2026 #BookEvent2026
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Sleepytime Tales update.
Pre-orders now open for audiobook and ebook on Kobo and Amazon. All formats will publish March 3rd. Check my website FocusSpede.ca for details 🙂
#CanKidLit #IReadCanadian #KidLit
The perfect Valentine's Day gift for ages 6 to 9.
As one perfect summer day fades to twilight, Bat and Mr. Byrd both land, quite unexpectedly, on the same branch of the same red maple tree at the same time, and this story begins …
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Love stories for your Valentine. SEMI-DETACHED by Elizabeth Ruth and THE CASTOR'S CHOICE by Jeff Wilson.
#IReadCanadian #ValentinesDay2026 #valentinesgift
Tashkent International School 4th grade students listening to Marsha Skrypuch book talk Adrift At Sea.
Adrift at Sea, A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch with Tuan Ho art by Brian Deines Published by Pajama Press
World Read Aloud Day #WRAD started a bit early for me this year, as last night at 11pm I met with 4th grade students from Tashkent International School to talk about Adrift at Sea, about Tuan Ho's perilous escape from Vietnam. @pajamapressbooks #ireadcanadian #booksky
Need a great read for 14-year-olds and older for Black History Month? BOYS AND GIRLS SCREAMING by Kern Carter tells the story of a generation of teens finding the support they need to process their trauma in their own ways.
#BlackHistoryMonth2026 #IReadCanadian @mandagroup.bsky.social