Publishers
Penguin Group Canada - The publisher of the "Our Canadian Girl" Series.
Supported Causes
PUBLIC INC.
www.publicinc.com
http://about.me/AdrianBradbury
Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan - CW4WA - National Board
Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan – Oakville/Milton/Burlington/Hamilton
www.canadianssupportafghanwomen.ca
Little Women for Little Women
www.littlewomenforlittlewomen.com
Zero Force - Even One Child Soldier is Too Many
www.zeroforce.org./Gulu Walk
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A wonderful on line resource for educators
and students wishing to learn more about the Holocaust.
Holocaust Centre of Toronto
Provides information on Holocaust Education Week in
Toronto. Also provides information on how to book a survivor to speak in your school or library.
IBBY Canada - Canadian Chapter of the International Board on Books
IBBY Canada - An international organization dedicated to supporting access to books for
children in countries that have suffered war, natural disasters, or other kinds of turmoil.
Canadian Children's Book Centre
A national non-profit and charitable organization that
supports and promotes Canadian books for children and teens.
Header image: Abdulsalam Haykal Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
Books and Writing
Different Drummer Books
web.me.com/diffdrum/Site/Home.html
Find an Independent Bookseller
The Canadian Children's Book Centre Profiles of authors and illustrators, directories of publishers and organizations, and information on various children's book awards.
The Writers' Union of Canada
A national organization of professional writers that works to advance conditions for all writers and to foster writing in Canada.
Canscaip
A national, professional group for people in the field of children's culture ...
Canadian Forces Artist Program
www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/ap-pa/index-eng.asp
War Artists Information
www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/ap-pa/index-eng.asp
Press
Cbc News article by Susan Noakes
The Star article by Trish Crawford
Flamborough Review article by Jennifer Takaoka
Rafal Gerszak is an award-winning Canadian war documentarian and photographer who has been embedded with an American unit in Afghanistan for a year. Rafal and I are working on a young adult book together.
Note: Rafal’s website has some graphic photographs. Not recommended for children under twelve.
Contemporary Hamilton Authors: Hamilton Public Library
Burlington Public Library
Our Canadian Girl series
The Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC)
-A national, not-for-profit organization that promotes the reading, writing, and illustrating of Canadian children's books. The CCBC provides programs, resources, materials and activities for teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers, booksellers, and parents.
National Library of Canada
www.nlc-bnc.ca/pagebypage/index-e.html
-Look for "how to write a book".
Children's Literature Web Guide
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html-A web reference full of children's books, authors and illustrators.
Children's Book Authors and Illustrators
http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/authors-illustrators.htm
-Resource site children's writers and illustrators.