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In memoriam: Katherine Barber, 1959-2021
The Butterflies & Aliens Library was saddened to hear of the death of Katherine Barber, founding editor of the Oxford Canadian Dictionary and Canada’s “Word Lady,” on April 24, 2021, of cancer. She was 61.
Small Press Saturday: Annick Press
Happy Saturday! It’s Small Press Saturday, the Canadian Children’s Book Week edition!
We are wrapping up our celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week and I figured it would be a great time to introduce you to Canadian Children’s Publisher Annick Press.
Canadian children’s books are a bit of everything!
Yay, it’s Friday! And even though it has been exciting to celebrate Canadian Children’s Book Week, it’s still Friday and we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library are feeling it. So for our next-to-last post for the week, we present a bit of a random selection of children’s books by Canadians. But, really, isn’t that part of the beauty of Canadian children’s books? They do include a bit of everything!
Canada includes other realms too…
For our third instalment in celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021, I’ve pulled four children’s and YA novels by three different authors off my To Be Read pile. And I must confess, they’ve been on my TBR pile a fair while. But they continue to call to me because they all promise to transport me to other realms, passports to mental travels yet to come. Canada also includes fantasy worlds and alternate realities!
Canadians reading Canada
For our second post in celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021, I’ve picked three books written by Canadian Women that are set in Canada. Because sometimes, when I read Canadian, I actually want to read about Canada and Canadian people in Canadian places.
Canada includes the World
For our first post in celebration of Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021, I’ve picked three books (and an accompanying CD!) from my shelves, all by local authors with a global perspective. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading Canadian, it’s that reading Canadian is reading the world.
May the Fourth be with you!
Okay, so we couldn’t let the first Star Wars Day for the Butterflies & Aliens Library to pass by unacknowledged! Please enjoy this gallery of images from two Star Wars pop-up books in our collection, both by the amazing and prolific Matthew Reinhart!
Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021
This week is Canadian Children’s Book Week, celebrating Canadian children’s authors, illustrators, and storytellers! A program of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC), Canadian Children’s Book Week 2021 features virtual readings and other events all across Canada.
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day 2021
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Small Press Saturday series this weekend to gush about Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Initiated by the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association, Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is an annual celebration to promote independent bookstores.
Happy Birthday to the Bard of Avon!
It’s been a busy few weeks here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library and, yeah, we haven’t managed to post as much as we would have liked, but what’s done is done. Though we’ve seen better days, we definitely couldn’t let this day go by without at least a tip of the virtual quill to the Sweet Swan of Avon, the National Poet of England, the Immortal Bard… William Shakespeare!
The Birthday of DiCamillo
Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Kate DiCamillo, beloved children’s author!
Happy Birthday, William Morris!
Born on this day in 1834, William Morris is perhaps best known as an artist and designer, and a major force behind the Arts & Crafts movement. But he was also a poet and novelist, connected to the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-1800s, and also the founder of the Kelmscott Press in 1891.
