Finalists were recently announced for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards and the Victoria Book Prizes, and we were thrilled to see three books we worked on for Orca Book Publishers among the nominees. Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of…
Congratulations to our partner Rowena Rae and her sister, Elspeth Rae, on the release of their book A Duck in a Sock: Four Phonics Stories, the first in the Meg and Greg series of chapter books for six- to nine-year-olds who…
We were delighted to see several of our clients honoured at the recent Taste Canada Awards. Jennifer Cockrall-King and TouchWood Editions came away with gold for Food Artisans of the Okanagan in the culinary narratives category; Jim Sutherland and Appetite by…
Our congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Victoria Book Prizes: Margriet Ruurs, recipient of the Bolen Books Children's Book Prize for Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey (Orca Book Publishers), and Yasuko Thanh, recipient of the City of Victoria Butler Book…
We are delighted that Colin Henthorne’s The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story (Harbour Publishing) has won the Keith Matthews Award for a book deserving special recognition, an honour bestowed by the Canadian Nautical Research Society. The jury…
Recently, my book club read H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. We discussed the book for the entire evening, a sure indication of a good read. At one point, Margaret, a former English teacher, opened the book at random…
In his new grammar and style guide, For Who the Bell Tolls, David Marsh of The Guardian newspaper offers a host of suggestions for navigating the ever-changing grammatical peals of the English language. He recommends, for example, not fussing over split infinitives, conjunctions…
During December’s gift-giving tradition, book sales skyrocket. This is good news for book lovers and for all promoters of the value and joy of reading. According to BookTrust columnist Matt Haig, though, book snob grinches lurk everywhere. “If books ever…
If you’ve ever puzzled over why “limb” and “debt” have a silent b, and what’s with the “i before e except after c” dictum when there are so many departures from the so-called rule, here’s the book for you. “For every quirk of spelling, there's…
