Canadian Children's Book Week
November 2007
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According to bookweek.ca "Canadian Children's Book Week is the single most important national event celebrating Canadian children's books and the importance of reading. Every November, thousands of children and adults participate in Book Week activities held across the country: in schools, in public libraries, in bookstores, in community centres wherever there are people who care about children and the books they read." The theme for 2007 is "The Magic of Books" Book Week Theme |
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Learning About Canadian Children's
Books
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Canadian Children's Book Week
http://www.bookweek.ca/ |
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The Canadian Children's Book Centre
http://www.bookcentre.ca/ |
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Take a look!
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Listing of Canadian author & illustrator personal
websites
http://www.bookcentre.ca/authors/author_pages.shtml |
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Index to Children's Book Authors
and Illustrators |
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Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Another huge index, this one from Univ. of Calgary. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html |
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Here are some other interesting
resources:
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| Abby and Tess Pet-Sitters Club Lots of games and puzzles about pets, as well as published writing by children. http://www.abbyandtess.com/ |
| CBC4Kids CBC's just-for-kids site has reading, writing, plays, games, news and more! http://www.cbc4kids.ca/regular/words/default.html |
| Cool Reads Books for 10-15 year old readers by 10-15 year old reviewers. A site created and run by 12 and 14 year old Tim and Chris Cross http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/ |
| Great Sites A comprehensive directory of children's sites compiled by the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/ |
| HarperCollins | Kids HarperCollins publishing house has activities and books to show. http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/ |
| KidPub WWW Publishing More than 40,000 stories written by kids from all over the planet! http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/ |
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Kids Clubhouse |
| Kids Stop Learn about Aboriginal life, culture and history on this special site created by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/index.html |
| OWLKids Online Fun online activities from the creators of Owl, Chickadee, Chirp and Owl Canadian Family Magazine. http://www.owlkids.com/ |
| Page by Page: Creating a Children's Book Zoom the cat books: A step-by-step guide to how books are made from the National Library of Canada. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pagebypage/t2-300-e.html |
| Pop! Magazine A fun and educational web site based on the popular science, environment, and nature Canadian magazine for kids. http://www.popmagazine.com/ |
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Scholastic Books Canada |
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Tumblebooks |
| Vancouver Public Library - Kids Zone Booklists, events, fun sites for kids, book camps http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/kids/home.html |
| Young Writers Clubhouse Practical advice for budding writers from the author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series. http://www.realkids.com/club.shtml |
Have you found
some good holiday webpages?
Let's add them to the website!
nboekhout@sd43.bc.ca
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This page updated November 2007.