Illustrator Evan Munday (who sunlights as Coach House Books’s publicist) and YA author Natalie Ghent ran the Test Pilot edition of Small Print’s Volume One Project, a new writing workshop series for pre-teens and tweens, at Humber College in Toronto on Nov. 22. Above (from left): Munday and Ghent, along with the Test Pilot participants and their newly created books. (Photo by Chris Reed)

On Nov. 24, Mélanie Watt dropped by Indigo’s Bay and Bloor location in Toronto as part of Kids Can Press’s partnership with Indigo’s Love of Reading Foundation, which aims to get books into the hands of needy kids. Above: Watt shows the assembled elementary school kids how to draw her best-known character, Scaredy Squirrel.