The Burgess Shale by Margaret Atwood

This year's Kreisel Lecture Series was given by Margaret Atwood. In it she discusses the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960's and is pretty funny to boot!

The book is available this week.

Herve Tullet Art Explosion

One of the most original children's book creators of the past year has to be Herve Tullet, author of Press Here. Recently he was in Pittsburgh, opening a new exhibit at the children's museum.

For some awesome insight, click here.

TPL Rocks!...but we knew that :)

OverDrive announced  that 30 standalone public library systems and 19 library consortia in the U.S. and two other countries have set a new record for lending more than one million digital books in 2016. These 49 systems each achieved significant year over year circulation growth, and together surpassed the 32 systems that accomplished the feat in 2015. Toronto Public Library was number one on the list.

To read the full article click here.

16 Canadian authors recommend books for Family Literacy Day

Family Literacy Day was on January 27th. To celebrate, the CBC asked some of Canada's fave authors to come up with some great reads for the family. Here is the list.