The latest issue of Quill & Quire hits the streets this week. Our cover star is picture book author/ illustrator Melanie Watt, and the Children’s and Educational Special Report also includes profiles of Cary Fagan and sister team Jane Drake and Ann Love, as well as a look at the Golden Compass controversy and at the promised $120-million school library funding boost in Ontario.
Also found in January/February are the Spring Previews, spotlighting the season’s hottest upcoming books, a look at the pricing crisis, a review of Budge Wilson’s Anne of Green Gables prequel, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.
In the January/February 2008 issue of Q&Q:
Mélanie Watt’s flying squirrel
Is her cartoon critter Kids Can’s next Franklin?
Plus more kidlit close-ups: Cary Fagan, and Jane Drake and Ann Love
Also in the Children’s and Educational Special Report: School libraries and book bans, Indigo and the library funding boost, and more
Spring previews
Your bird’s-eye view of the season’s hottest upcoming books, in fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and international titles
Inside the pricing crisis
What does the loonie’s rise mean for the future of the business?
FRONTMATTER
- First-time author Susan Pinker courts controversy
- Cover to Cover: Literary pulp fiction
- Snapshot: Vancouver Island bookseller Amber Rider
- Deals Corner: Jessica Grant, Ray Robertson, and more
- Watch Your Language: Talking politics
- Quill at Large: BookNet’s holiday bash
- Local Buzz: That Place by Tantramar
NEWS AND FEATURES
- Parting the curtain on book sales stats
- Audiobooks go digital
- Highlights from Q&Q Omni
SPECIAL REPORT: CHILDREN’S AND EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING
- The school library giveaway
- The case of The Golden Compass
- S.W.A.T. team: Authors connect with kids in class
- Anne is in the air: Penguin plans major Green Gables campaign
REVIEWS
The Boys in the Trees by Mary Swan- Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- Mattland by Hazel Hutchins, Gail Herbert, and Dusan Petricic
- Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
- One Hen by Katie Smith Milway and Eugenie Fernandes
- Plus more fiction, non-fiction, and picture books
BESTSELLERS
Presented by Q&Q and BookNet Canada
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