The Pharos Gate: Griffin and Sabine’s Lost Correspondence lands today!

Nick Bantock's final book in the Griffin and Sabine series,The Pharos Gate,  is in stores today. It coincides with the 25th anniversary of when the first book came out in the series. In this PW article, Nick talks about his inspiration for the series which came from a walk from the post office where he was tired of getting only junk mail. He had the vision of a series of wonderful, enigmatic letters between a man and a woman. The rest is history!

Owlkids on YouTube

Owlkids has a pretty awesome YouTube channel. In this video, Willow Dawson talks about her inspiration behind her amazing book The Wolf Birds.

Dude Making a Difference-Ted Talk

 
Wow! Rob Greenfield, author of Dude Making a Difference, Bamboo Bikes, Dumpster Dives and Other ExtremeAdventures Across America has a pretty awesome TedTalk called How To End the Food Fiasco.  Loblaws is increasing it's line of ugly food.

Loan Stars

Loan Stars is here! What is Loan Stars?
Loan Stars is the new readers’ advisory service that allows library staff across Canada to collaboratively select their favourite forthcoming titles. Using CataList, the online catalogue tool available free to libraries, library staff can nominate their favourite adult fiction and non-fiction titles, the most popular of which will be marketed to libraries and library users alike.
Loan Stars is a joint collaboration between the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), BookNet Canada, the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Readers’ Advisory Committee, the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Readers’ Advisory Committee, library vendors, independent Canadian publishers, multi-national publishers, and more.
Check them out!

Recordings for the Winter 2016 List

If you are not able to get out and see our awesome presentations we have recorded them. Please send an email to saffronb@ampersandinc.ca with you would like access to the recordings. We'll be recording our Spring Presentations later on this month.

Judy Sarick Remembered

The amazing Judy Sarick passed away last week. She was the force behind The Children's Bookstore that opened in Toronto in 1974 and made a significant impact on Canadian children and books published for them. The Globe did a wonderful piece on her and her legacy.

Karen Boersma and Telling Great Stories

At the Spring launch of Owlkids Books, the folks at Type Books sat down with Karen Boersma, publisher at Owlkids to chat about the history of Owlkids and the importance of telling great stories.

History of Kobo

 
The Globe had a good piece this weekend on the history of Kobo.

Fun Friday!

Sick of the cold....are you kid's going out of their mind  with cabin fever? Owlkids has a fun activity kit available for download inspired by A Dog Day For Susan. Enjoy!

CBC Books Future Canadian Classics

What a fabulous idea! CBC has come up with a list of 20 books that are due to become the next Canadian Classics; books like Fifteen Dogs, The Orenda, etc. I think I now have my summer reading list. :)