DCB, an imprint of Cormorant Books, publishes fiction and non-fiction for youth.
Missing jewelry, a false accusation, and a real thief. Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I.
is on the case.
Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I. by Leslie Gentile (Leslie Gentile Author) is available at your local indie bookstore! Find a store here: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/978-1-77086-707-9
Thank you Canadian Review of Materials for highly recommending Takedown by Ali Bryan!
How do you go on after making a life-altering discovery?
Life Expectancy by Alison Hughes is available at your local indie bookstore! Find a store here: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/978-1-77086-709-3
Standing on Neptune by Sherrard is an intimate story told through powerful verse.
Available at your local indie bookstore! Find a store here: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/978-1-77086-687-4
Spotted in the wild! Shamus The Urban Rez Dog, P.I. by Leslie Gentile Author at A Different Booklist
There is a wonderful review of Blue to the Sky by Sylvia McNicoll in Canadian Children's Book News (The Canadian Children's Book Centre ).
“Sylvia McNicoll brings Ella’s voice to life through this lovely story of resilience. The synopsis hardly does justice to the layers that McNicoll brings to Blue to the Sky, a reference to the poem that kids are taught about EpiPens. … This novel is a wonderful way for kids like Ella to feel seen and for others to build empathy for the lived experiences of those around them.” – Ashley Pamenter, Canadian Children’s Book News, Spring 2024
Congratulations Leslie Gentile Author!
Shamus in on a roll! Thank you to Cormorant Books and the Chocolate Lily Book Awards!
40 Days in Hicksville by Christina Kilbourne selected by The Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens 2024
The Canadian Children's Book Centre
More Than Words: Navigating the Complex World of Communication by Natalie Hyde, Valerie Sherrard and David Jardine selected by The Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens 2024
The Canadian Children's Book Centre Natalie Hyde Valerie Sherrard
Shamus the Urban Rez Dog, P.I. by Leslie Gentile Author selected by The Canadian Children's Book Centre
Congratulations Leslie Gentile Author!
Plague Thieves by Caroline Fernandez
https://canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2024/07/plague-thieves.html
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Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators
Spring has officially sprung and—surprise, surprise—we’re thinking about books. To celebrate the warmer weather, we’ve curated a collection of new and forthcoming books to entertain young readers this spring. Click on the link below to learn more about the titles, then find them at your local indie using our Shop Locator tool!
https://www.indiebookstores.ca/lists/spring-reads-for-young-readers/
Raise your hand if you’ll join the OSLA in letting the provincial government know that every student in Ontario deserves a properly funded and staffed school library!
This past April, the Ministry of Education released its new education funding model, which eliminated the only protected funding envelope for school library staff and resources.
We face potential layoffs of hundreds or thousands of school library technicians, and permanent re-assignment of many of Ontario’s skilled Teacher-Librarians. Many may ultimately choose to leave our public schools altogether.
We're calling on every member of Library Land to raise awareness about this issue.
Ontario residents, take action by signing the petition to Save Our School Libraries by September 30: https://bit.ly/aboutsaveourschoollibraries
“...Ali Bryan wrote this riveting story about bravery, vulnerability, passion, and the lengths one girl will go to for her family.”
Thank you for the feature in the women’s sports issue! Takedown hits the shelves on May 11th!
Thank you for the feature ! If you want to know the true story that inspired Eric Walters’ latest middle grade novel, The Club, check out the article in The Toronto Star, or follow the link below:
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/at-57-musician-erika-yost-discovered-she-had-a-half-brother-her-friend-author-eric/article_ce67c0e4-fd7c-11ee-9984-e33e02370a84.html
When Jax meets new girl, Liv, at band auditions, he thinks he’s going to have competition. But after becoming duet partners, it isn’t long before they’re friends. As they grow closer, it becomes clear that a shared love of music isn’t all they have in common, and what they’re about to discover will bring a whole new meaning to the word “family.”
The Club is available now at your local indie bookstore!
Great summer reading for the kids!
Sylvia McNicoll
Great summer reading for the kids!
Great summer reading for the kids!
Parent Club
Great summer reading for teens!
Author Ali Bryan
Great summer reading for the kids!
Author Ali Bryan Parent Club Sylvia McNicoll
Sylvia McNicoll
Sylvia McNicoll
Blue to the Sky by Sylvia McNicoll
Multiple food allergies destroy 12-year-old Ella’s confidence, especially when it comes to public speaking. She plans to conquer her fear by participating in a CN Tower climb and reading her poetry when she gets to the top.
https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9781770867475
Sylvia McNicoll
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Check out our latest book launch with Eric Walters as he talks about his new book, The Club. Watch the full video on our YouTube Channel : @dcbyoungreaders
A Mist of Memories by Kate Blair hit the shelves last weekend! Check out the Kirkus Review “Twists and turns abound, but the heart of the book is its poignant exploration of regret, grief, and loss …. A modern gothic thriller with emotional depth.” — Kirkus Reviews A Mist of Memories is available at your local indie bookstore: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/978-1-77086-696-6 #canlit #canadianliterature #bookstoread #bookstagram #book #bookaholic #bookrecommendations #indiebook #fiction #shoplocal #booklover #books #IReadCanadian #YA #YAfiction #YAbooks #YAreads #youngadultbooks
Firefly by Philippa Dowding was chosen by voters in grades 4-7 as one of the Rocky Mountain Book Awards top five! Congratulations Philippa✨🧚♀️🎉 The night Firefly’s mother wields a baseball bat at the cops, a social worker sends Firefly to live with Aunt Gayle in The Corseted Lady costume shop. There’s finally enough food, clothes and her own room. But what’s family? Where’s home? And beneath which costume is the real Firefly? Firefly is available at your local indie bookstore! #MiddleGradeBooks #MiddleGradeFiction #AwardNominee #PhilippaDowding
Standing on Neptune by Valerie Sherrard hit the shelves yesterday! Have you picked up your copy yet? Available at your local indie bookstore📚✨🚀 In fractured vignettes, Brooke Palinder describes the week she spends wondering if she’s pregnant after realizing her period is late. Her boyfriend is unable to offer support and Brooke can’t even tell her best friend. Feeling isolated, she reexamines her life and readies herself to take a pregnancy test. Kirkus Reviews calls Standing on Neptune “a tender, intense story capturing the vast scope of a young adult’s interior universe.” #canlit #canadianliterature #bookstoread #bookstagram #book #bookaholic #bookrecommendations #indiebook #fiction #shoplocal #booklover #books #IReadCanadian #YA #YAfiction #YAbooks #YAreads #youngadultbooks #youngadultfiction #poetry #YApoetry #novelinverse #poetrybook #poems #YApoems #youngadultpoetry
A Bend in the Breeze by Valerie Sherrard has been shortlisted for Mrs. Dunster's Fiction Prize for the New Brunswick Book Awards! Congratulations Valerie!! In this “gentle and well-written” narrative Pascale Chardon finds herself on a lifeboat drifting toward an uncharted island with no memory of how she got there. All she wants is to get back to her family. The islanders, however, have been waiting for a legendary visitor for many decades and aren’t willing to let Pascale go home so easily. Valerie Sherrard is an award-winning author of picture books and young adult novels. Her novel The Glory Wind won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction and the Ann Connor Brimer Award. Her works have been chosen as Red Maple and White Pine Award Honour Books and she has been nominated for Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards, and Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards. Her new book, Standing on Neptune hits the shelves this Saturday, April 15th. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick. #book #booknerd #bookaholic #bookstagram #booklaunch #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #middlegradereads #middlegradefiction #middlegradebookstagram
We are very excited to share that Firefly by Philippa Dowding has been nominated for the Snow Willow Award through The Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Award (SYRCA)! Congratulations Philippa!🎉 🗳VOTING INFO: Saskatchewan students may vote in any category, provided they have read the minimum number of books required. Voting for the 2023 Willow Awards will be completed by March 31, 2024! Head to willowawards.ca for more information and for extra materials and activities to enhance the reader’s enjoyment of each of the nominated books! . . . . #MiddleGradeBooks #MiddleGradeFiction #AwardNominee #PhilippaDowding
The sky is dark and the moon is out! What are our furry friends from Angela Misri's Tails of the Apocalypse series up to on a night like this? Keep an eye on our social media channels this Halloween for a spooktastic cover reveal of the next book in the series, VALHAMSTER! TRIP OF THE DEAD follows Trip (the clumsy but streetwise raccoon) and friends on a thrilling, zombie-ridden adventure. Winner of the 2020-21 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award, PICKLES VS. THE ZOMBIES follows the calico housecat Pickles and friends.
Valerie Sherrard talks about her new book Birdspell!
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