The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is excited to announce the 2018 TD Canadian Children’s Book Week tour schedule.

TD Canadian Children’s Book Week – Canada’s single most important national event celebrating Canadian children’s books and the importance of reading – runs from May 5 to 12, 2018. As part of the annual week-long event, 28 authors, illustrators and storytellers will take part in 378 readings in 186 communities across Canada.

To help open doors for more inclusive tomorrow, unique programs such as TD Canadian Children’s Book Week not only instill a lifelong love of reading, it sparks imagination, helping kids envision a world without limits.

For more information about the program and to see the full 2018 tour schedule of public events, please visit www.bookweek.ca and www.td.com/thereadycommitment.

About TD Global Corporate Citizenship

TD has a long-standing commitment to enriching the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities. That’s why TD launched The Ready Commitment in March 2018, a new multi-year program to help individuals and communities prosper. As part of The Ready Commitment, TD targets CDN $1 billion (US $775 million) in total by 2030 towards community giving in four areas critical to opening doors for an inclusive tomorrow – Financial Security, a more Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health. Through The Ready Commitment, TD’s aspiration is to link business, products, services, and community giving to help people feel more confident – not just about their finances, but about their future and their ability to achieve their personal goals in a changing world. For further information, please visit www.td.com/thereadycommitment.

About The Canadian Children’s Book Centre

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976. We are dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing and illustrating of Canadian books for young readers. Our programs, publications, and resources help teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents select the very best for young readers. For more information, please visit www.bookcentre.ca.

For more information, please contact:

Emma Hunter
Marketing and Website Coordinator
Canadian Children’s Book Centre
416 975-0010 ext. 221

emma@bookcentre.ca

 

Official Tour Roster & Locations

Alberta Lana Button, author Marina Cohen, author  British Columbia Interior Sylvia Gunnery, author Lower Mainland Tom Ryan, author Vancouver Island Alice Kuipers, author Northern Region Soyeon Kim, illustrator   Manitoba Rina Singh, author Vikki VanSickle, author   New Brunswick Lori Joy Smith, author/illustrator   Newfoundland Anna Humphrey, author   Labrador Mariella Bertelli, storyteller

Northwest Territories Stephanie McLellan, authorNova Scotia Kass Reich, illustrator   Nunavut Carey Sookocheff, author/illustrator   Ontario Darren Groth, author Alison Hughes, author Shoshana Litman, storyteller Lorna Schultz Nicholson, author Andreas Oertel, author Pam Withers, author   Prince Edward Island Elly MacKay, author/ illustrator   Quebec Eileen Cook, author Anne Glover, storyteller Melanie Jackson, author Jessica Scott Kerrin, author Jennifer Mook-Sang, author   Saskatchewan Southern Region J. Torres, author   Yukon Joel A. Sutherland, author

Find the complete events schedule here.