Kathleen Cherry visits Mile 108 Elementary!

Red Cedar Award nominee Kathleen Cherry visited Mile 108 Elementary and presented to their enthusiastic and long-standing Red Cedar club. Kathleen sent us this awesome photos of her and group leader Lynn McArthur with the Mile 108 Elementary Red Cedar club!  Thanks so much for sharing this!

YRCABC: Vision and Values

    In 1996, when the YRCABC came into existence, it had 3 goals: Encourage students in grades 4-7 to read more Create an awareness of Canadian books and authors Develop children’s ability to judge published works The YRCABC strategic plan has evolved to include currently both the Society and the Award but we still …

YRCABC: Leadership

Board of Directors President Marilyn MacPherson Marilyn is a librarian with a passion for developing children’s literacy and promoting Canadian Kidlit. As a former school trustee in Jasper, Alberta, Marilyn founded a writer-in residence program which introduced kids and the community to local authors like Jan Truss, W. O. Mitchell, and Rudy Wiebe. In her …

Fiction: Trip of the Dead

Author Illustrator Publisher     Angela Misri   DCB/Cormorant One racoon takes on zombies, finds friends, and discovers his superpowers.  Can one tiny racoon take on rampaging zombies, unkind humans, and a forest full of surprises? Trip, the streetwise racoon from Angela’s first book, Pickles vs the Zombies, has to, or else! In this funny, …

Fiction: Stealing Home

Author Illustrator Publisher J. Torres David Namisato Kids Can Press What do you do when your home and everything you love is taken away from you? In the 1940’s, when Canada was at war, Japanese citizens were by government decree considered as enemy aliens and stripped of their civil rights. People lost their homes, possessions, …