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Best Books for Kids & Teens featured nine Pajama Press books, including five Starred Selections, in the Spring 2017 issue

May 15th, 2017

Pajama Press is very proud to announce that nine of our Spring 2017 books are featured in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens. Adrift at Sea by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch with Tuan Ho and illustrated by Brian Deines is a Starred Selection All the World a Poem by Gilles Tibo and […]

Posted in Adrift at Sea, All the World a Poem, Hat On Hat Off, How Do You Feel, Next Round, Rhino Rumpus, Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles, When the Rain Comes

Three Pajama Press titles nominated for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards

September 8th, 2016

Pajama Press is thrilled to announce that three of our titles have been nominated for the 2016 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards. A Year of Borrowed Men, written by Michelle Barker and illustrated by Renné Benoit, has been nominated for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. The picture book, which is written from the WWII […]

Posted in A Year of Borrowed Men, In a Cloud of Dust, Uncertain Soldier

The Stowaways and Graffiti Knight shortlisted for Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards

September 4th, 2014

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre announced the finalists for its 2014 children’s literature awards in a press release last night. Pajama Press congratulates Karen Bass, author of Graffiti Knight, and Meghan Marentette, author of The Stowaways, for their nominations to these auspicious awards. Graffiti Knight is a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical […]

Posted in Graffiti Knight, The Stowaways

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 […]

Posted in Cat Champions, Graffiti Knight, Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, The Stowaways

Hoogie and Tweezle “explore the wonder of childhood”—Canadian Children’s Book News

February 20th, 2014

Award-winning author Stephanie McLellan has drawn inspiration from her own three children and created Hoogie in the Middle, a sneak peek into the world surrounding Hoogie, the middle child. The author playfully uses rhythm, alliteration and similes to delineate Hoogie’s character and exhibit how the middle child feels: “Pumpkin is the big, big girl,” “Tweezle […]

Posted in Hoogie In the Middle, Tweezle into Everything

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

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