How to Teach Kids about Impending Doom
Award-winning children’s book author Jon Klassen on trusting four-year-olds with difficult realities
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In Conversation: Buffy Sainte-Marie and Angela Misri
The two writers on pet adoption, children’s literature, and Sainte-Marie’s new picture book
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The Challenge of Addressing Slavery in Children’s Stories
Where history has ignored the lives of Black Canadians, writers like Christopher Paul Curtis have turned painful realities into powerful narratives
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Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children’s Literature
As publisher of Groundwood Books, she was the type of editor who would encourage you to jump—and then be your net
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Has Childhood Gone AWOL?
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape
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Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Little Guys
A father ponders the moral architecture of children on a trip to Sherwood Forest
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