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Victoria Miles tours with BC Book Prizes

Mimi Power and the I-don't-know-what

Time for Flowers, Time for Snow Promotional Video #2

Time for Flowers, Time for Snow

Laura James an the Stations for Sassier Project

Laura James, illustrator of the upcoming Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior, partnered up with From Here to Haiti on a cultural campaign to revamp St. Jean-Baptiste Church in Sassier, Haiti. Click here for their IndieGoGo page.

Michael Katz to teach two courses at UBC

Tradewind Books' publisher Michael Katz will be teaching two courses at the University of British Columbia this Winter. 

Children's Book Workshop: This eight-week course is designed for anyone interested in the process of book creation and especially for writers, illustrators and book designers. It encourages you to begin new projects or to prepare and submit an existing project for publication.

How to Publish Your Own Book: This new four-week course is for writers who want to learn the fundamentals of how to publish and market their own book. It features speakers from the publishing world to help you get started.

An Inspiring Thought About Children's Poetry

"Kids often read poetry collections again and again. Poems are powerful. They stick in your head, become part of you."

- Tiffany Stone in the Spring 2012 edition of Canadian Children's Booknews. Before Rainbow Shoes comes out in October, you can check out our other poetry collections among which are City Kids, The Year I Was Grounded and Baad Animals.

Watch our latest book trailers designed by Cynthia Nugent - Rascal Media