Canadian Children's Book Week
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Sunday, May 1st to Saturday, May 7th, 2022
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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 2022 is Sail into Stories. Book Week Theme Posters, Bookmarks, and more |
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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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Here are some other interesting
resources:
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| CBC's articles for kids https://www.cbc.ca/kids/articles |
| 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 American Library Association. https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb Resources for parents and educators https://www.ala.org/yalsa/resources-parents-educators |
| HarperCollins publishing house - children's books. https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/childrens |
| 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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Houghton Mifflin publishing house has a new area "HMH" for curriculum resources |
| Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Indigenous languages - Learning and teaching resources https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/ressources-resources/autochtones-aboriginals/apprentissage-learning-eng |
| OWLKids Online Fun online activities from the creators of Owl, Chickadee, Chirp and Owl Canadian Family Magazine. http://www.owlkids.com/ |
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Scholastic Books Canada |
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Tumblebooks |
Why not write your own book! (These are only examples!) |
BookBildr: Write your own children's book online (free!) |
Kindlepreneur: free guide on writing a children's book |
| 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. This is only available via a web archive, but it does seem to all be there! https://web.archive.org/web/20160312135759/http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/lac-bac/page_by_page-ef/www.lac-bac.gc.ca/3/2/t2-300-e.html |
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This page created pre-November 2007,
updated in April 2022.
