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Children’s Literature

A photograph of Buffy Sainte-Marie holding up her new picture book and smiling. The background is bright green with stripes radiating out from behind Buffy.
Arts & Culture

In Conversation: Buffy Sainte-Marie and Angela Misri

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The two writers on pet adoption, children’s literature, and Sainte-Marie’s new picture book

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Arts & Culture / Books

The Challenge of Addressing Slavery in Children’s Stories

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 - by Donna Bailey Nurse

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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Barry Oleary
Arts & Culture

Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children’s Literature

November 24, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Sara O'Leary

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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Books / June 2005

Has Childhood Gone AWOL?

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape

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May 2005 / Memoir

Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Little Guys

May 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Rick Salutin

A father ponders the moral architecture of children on a trip to Sherwood Forest

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