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Canadian Children’s Book News reviews “riveting” Moon at Nine

July 23rd, 2014

“Growing up in Tehran in the 1980s, Farrin’s entire life has always been filled with secrets. As secret supporters of the Shah who was overthrown by the Revolutionary Guard in 1979, Farrin’s parents’ illegal activities in support of the Shah could land them all in serious trouble. Her mother has always warned her not to […]

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4 Pajama Press books selected in Best Books For Kids & Teens

May 12th, 2014

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre‘s semi-annual publication Best Books for Kids & Teens has selected four Pajama Press books in its Spring 2014 edition: Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That by Victoria Allenby with illustrations by Tara Anderson The Stowaways by Meghan Marentette with illustrations by Dean Griffiths—Starred Selection Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass—Starred […]

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Snuggle Up and Read for Family Literacy Day

January 31st, 2014

A small school in North Bay, Ontario hosted a remarkable event for Family Literacy Day this week. Inspired by the Family Literacy Day booklist compiled by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, a teacher at J.W. Trusler Public School decided to organize a “Snuggle Up and Read” event, inviting parents to bring their pajama-clad children to […]

Posted in Hoogie In the Middle, Tweezle into Everything

CCBC features Community Soup and Nix Minus One

November 28th, 2013

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has compiled a list of great children’s books for the 2013 holiday season. They include two books published by Pajama Press. Community Soup by Alma Fullerton Kioni loves her goats but they can be big trouble! On soup day, when all the other children are gathering vegetables from the community […]

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Canadian Children’s Book News calls Namesake “a gem”

November 1st, 2013

“Jane Grey is a student in Nova Scotia preparing a history project on her namesake, Lady Jane Grey, who was the queen of England for nine days in 1553, a political pawn in the intrigues of the Tudor era. Jane discovers Lady Jane’s Book of Prayre mixed in with her research books from the library […]

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Sylvia Gunnery profiled in Canadian Children’s Book News

April 18th, 2013

“Author Sylvia Gunnery on learning, writing, eavesdropping, teaching” by Kathleen Martin (reprinted with permission from Canadian Children’s Book News Vol 36 No. 2, Spring 2013) Sylvia Gunnery had to turn her writing desk away from the ocean. “I was getting distracted too much,” she says. There are trees outside the window next to her desk […]

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Last Airlift is a CCBC Choice 2013

March 28th, 2013

The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has released their CCBC Choices 2013 publication. Among the exemplary books selected is Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War, released in the US in 2012: “The last Canadian airlift to leave Saigon during the Vietnam War was on April 11, […]

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