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Recent Media
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YA adventure novel by Lea Beddia release- March 15, 2023 |
Checkout this excellent CBC interview with author, Lea Beddia, about her new YA adventure novel
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My Sister's Girlfriend by Gail Marlene Schwartz and Lucie Gagnon was chosen as one of the top Canadian middle grade books to watch for in fall 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/36-canadian-middle-grade-books-to-watch-for-in-fall-2022-1.6595261 |
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New Review from The British Columbia Review
"LS Stone perfectly captures the voice and perspective of a teenager. Despite his initial self-interest, Stone does a good job of making Nick a character at once real and sympathetic. Seeing Nick grow and change throughout the novel will inspire readers to empathize with his personal journey, and might even convince teens to volunteer at an elephant refuge or even build a school in Kenya. All readers, teenaged or otherwise, will leave What’s in it for Me? feeling both challenged and empowered to make a difference in the world.see the full review https://thebcreview.ca/2022/09/12/1567/ |
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“… a celebration of youth and focuses on a positive and empowering message for those who want to be seen for who they truly are.”
~CBC books-Canadian picture books to watch for in spring 2022 "March’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" ~Lambda Literary |
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READ LOCAL BC: FEBRUARY HIGHLIGHT!
This week at #ReadLocalBC, we’re celebrating Asian Canadian voices sharing their stories with British Columbia. Read on for a roundup of our favourite histories, poetry collections, memoirs, and children’s tales by some of BC’s most prominent Asian Canadian writers. https://www.readlocalbc.ca/2022/01/25/asian-canadian-voices/ |
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Gender Identity Children’s Picture Book-
I AM EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN by Sydney Sunderland highlighted in BC Book Look. https://bcbooklook.com/be-your-best-self/ |
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What's in it for ME? by LS Stone is highlighted in Read Local BC video for Frankfurt Book Fair 2021!
How exciting! Click on picture to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCeZ1ujbNXI&ab_channel=ReadLocalBC |
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Book release! Oct 15, 2021
The Loudest Bark (English-language version) Quels Jappements! (French-language version) By Gail Marlene Swartz and Lucie Gagnon Illustrated by Amélie Ayotte |
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Girl empowerment is a main theme in LS Stone’s novel, What’s in it for Me? Camila wants to be a mahout, a position normally filled by a man. She uses her voice and her actions to become one. Let’s give young girls a voice! Celebrate the International day of the Girl https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day
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HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAY!
Author, LS Stone, has donated all royalties from book sales of What's in it for ME? to elephant organizations. Rebel Mountain Press will match all author donations. Also see worldelephantday.org |
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CTV Anchor, Sandie Rinaldo, reads Author
Robin Stevenson’s “Ghost Journey: A Refugee Story,” in advance of IReadCanadianDay Feb. 17 "Awesome book! Most likely one of the best, if not the best, book in Canada to read to kids (& adults) to foster an understanding of LGBTQ+ lived experiences and, of course, the deep love of a faithful cat." M.P, librarian |
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Click on image for a preview of interview with Metis author, Mike Calvert from In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2
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Ghost's Journey: A Refugee Story by Robin Stevenson was listed as one of the
top Children's books about the most impactful LGBTQ+ icons by Romper Magazine. The plight of LGBTQ+ refugees is something that doesn't often get media attention, let alone recognition in children's literature. That's why real life refugees and husbands Rainer Oktovianus and Eka Nasution, who left Indonesia (where same-sex relationships are criminalized) for Canada, decided to tell their own story in a children's book written by Oktovianus and author Robin Stevenson.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Ghost's Journey: A Refugee Story written by Robin Stevenson nominated for: 2021 Silver Birch express Award and the 2021 Rocky Mountain Book Awards |
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Cancer is a C Word by Sunita Pal, illustrated by Cody Andreasen was highlighted by CBC Books as a
recommended Canadian children's picture book- Fall 2020.https://www.cbc.ca/books/cancer-is-a-c-word-1.5738166 |
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Check out this glowing review of Kiskajeyi- I AM READY! written by Michelle Sylliboy ormsbyreview.com/2020/09/26/929-falardeau-sylliboy-kiskajeyi/
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Check out this powerful interview with six contributors from
In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2- A collection of Indigenous authors and artists in Canada. Listen to their reflections on Indigenous voices and issues on All Lit Up. |
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REAKING NEWS! KISKAJEYI- I AM READY written by Michelle Sylliboy, edited by Michael Calvert - winner of the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award (IVAs) in the category of Published Poetry (English category). indigenousvoicesawards.org
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Indigenous author, Michelle Sylliboy, discusses her poem, Stepping on Intellectual Sacred Grounds, (published in Kiskajeyi-I AM READY) with CBC. Michelle wrote this in response to the International Day of Elimination of Racism.
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Ghost’s Journey: A Refugee Story
~chosen as a best book for 2020 with a red star which signifies a "title of exceptional calibre" in Canadian Children's Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teen s spring 2020 edition. |
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Christmas Gift Suggestion:
Ghost’s Journey: A Refugee Story was chosen by CBC panel as one of 8 books recommended over the holiday season. |
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Shelagh Rogers and Michelle Sylliboy holding whale bones that Michelle carved Mi'kmaq hieroglyphics on.
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Ghost's Journey: A Refugee Story by Robin Stevenson listed on 49th Shelf as: Most Anticipated: 2019 Books for Young Readers Preview
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To say that introducing young children to complex social justice issues – such as those involving LGBTQ+ refugees – is a challenge would be an understatement. But Robin Stevenson’s new picture book manages to present this complicated subject in an accessible and moving way.
For full article see: https://quillandquire.com/review/ghosts-journey-a-refugee-story/ |
"Stevenson tells the tale from the perspective of their cat, Ghost, but does so without cutesy anthropomorphizing. Ghost is an observer of the action, but always with a realistic cat’s response, reminding us that this is a true story and not a made-up tale." ~Mombian
www.mombian.com/2019/08/30/new-picture-book-tells-story-of-two-gay-refugees-and-their-cat/ |
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Rebel Mountain Press anthology - Breaking Boundaries: LGBTQ2 Writers Coming Out and Into Canada was nominated for the 2019 BC BookWorld George Ryga Award.
The George Ryga Award is an annual literary prize for a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book. Nominees in past years include: David Suzuki, Monique Gray Smith, Wade Davis, Bev Sellers, Richard Wagamese, Ivan Coyote, |
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In 2019, Canada is joining worldwide nations to celebrate the International Year of Indigenous Languages announced by UNESCO. Indigenous languages are an integral part of Indigenous Peoples’ cultures and identities and of Canadian society. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/celebrate-indigenous-languages.html
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Excerpt from the Navigator "The Voice of Rebel Mountain Press-Lori Shwydky" by contributor Spenser Smith
It takes a certain kind of person to start a publishing company in an industry that has withstood sensational headlines such as “eBooks overtake paperbacks: is this the death of the printed book?” (Telegraph) It takes someone who is willing to take a risk, yet cares deeply about books and the magical portals they can open.
Joy Gugeler, VIU professor and a publishing executive at Chameleon Consulting, is an industry veteran, having held editorial positions at a long list of presses, such as ECW Press, Beach Holme Publishing, and Raincoast Books. Gugeler says she is proud of Shwydky and thinks she is exactly the type of person that the publishing industry needs to thrive. “I think it’s a very ambitious and brave act in 2015 to start a press, but it’s also what the industry needs—a new vanguard of publishers with new business models and economies of scale that can spot talent and audiences and put them together. All hail the new generation.” see: http://www.thenav.ca/2015/11/18/the-voice-of-rebel-mountain-press/
It takes a certain kind of person to start a publishing company in an industry that has withstood sensational headlines such as “eBooks overtake paperbacks: is this the death of the printed book?” (Telegraph) It takes someone who is willing to take a risk, yet cares deeply about books and the magical portals they can open.
Joy Gugeler, VIU professor and a publishing executive at Chameleon Consulting, is an industry veteran, having held editorial positions at a long list of presses, such as ECW Press, Beach Holme Publishing, and Raincoast Books. Gugeler says she is proud of Shwydky and thinks she is exactly the type of person that the publishing industry needs to thrive. “I think it’s a very ambitious and brave act in 2015 to start a press, but it’s also what the industry needs—a new vanguard of publishers with new business models and economies of scale that can spot talent and audiences and put them together. All hail the new generation.” see: http://www.thenav.ca/2015/11/18/the-voice-of-rebel-mountain-press/
