Publishers


Annick Press

 

Penguin Group Canada - The publisher of the "Our Canadian Girl" Series.

Penguin

 

 

 

Supported Causes

 

PUBLIC INC.

www.publicinc.com
http://about.me/AdrianBradbury

 

Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan - CW4WA - National Board

www.w4wafghan.ca

 

Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan – Oakville/Milton/Burlington/Hamilton

www.canadianssupportafghanwomen.ca

 

Little Women for Little Women

www.littlewomenforlittlewomen.com

 

Zero Force - Even One Child Soldier is Too Many
www.zeroforce.org./

Gulu Walk

www.guluwalk.com/movement/


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A wonderful on line resource for educators and students wishing to learn more about the Holocaust.

www.ushmm.org


Holocaust Centre of Toronto

Provides information on Holocaust Education Week in
Toronto. Also provides information on how to book a survivor to speak in your school or library.

www.holocaustcentre.com

 

IBBY Canada - Canadian Chapter of the International Board on Books

IBBY Canada - An international organization dedicated to supporting access to books for
children in countries that have suffered war, natural disasters, or other kinds of turmoil.

www.ibby-canada.org/

 


Canadian Children's Book Centre

A national non-profit and charitable organization that
supports and promotes Canadian books for children and teens.

www.bookcentre.ca

 

 

 

Header image: Abdulsalam Haykal Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Books and Writing

 

Different Drummer Books

web.me.com/diffdrum/Site/Home.html

 

Find an Independent Bookseller

findabookstore.ca/find.html

The Canadian Children's Book Centre Profiles of authors and illustrators, directories of publishers and organizations, and information on various children's book awards.

 

The Writers' Union of Canada

A national organization of professional writers that works to advance conditions for all writers and to foster writing in Canada.

www.writersunion.ca

 

Canscaip

A national, professional group for people in the field of children's culture ...

www.canscaip.org.


Canadian Forces Artist Program

www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/ap-pa/index-eng.asp


 

War Artists Information

www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/ap-pa/index-eng.asp

 

Press

Cbc News article by Susan Noakes

The Star article by Trish Crawford

Flamborough Review article by Jennifer Takaoka

 

Rafal Gerszak is an award-winning Canadian war documentarian and photographer who has been embedded with an American unit in Afghanistan for a year. Rafal and I are working on a young adult book together.

www.rafalgerszak.com

Note: Rafal’s website has some graphic photographs. Not recommended for children under twelve.

Contemporary Hamilton Authors: Hamilton Public Library

myhamilton.ca

Burlington Public Library

www.bpl.on.ca

Our Canadian Girl series

www.ourcanadiangirl.ca

The Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC)

www.bookcentre.ca

-A national, not-for-profit organization that promotes the reading, writing, and illustrating of Canadian children's books. The CCBC provides programs, resources, materials and activities for teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers, booksellers, and parents.

National Library of Canada

www.nlc-bnc.ca/pagebypage/index-e.html

-Look for "how to write a book".

Children's Literature Web Guide

www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
-A web reference full of children's books, authors and illustrators.

Children's Book Authors and Illustrators

http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/authors-illustrators.htm
-Resource site children's writers and illustrators.

 

Montreal Gazzette Article