In the summer issue of Canadian Children’s Book News Kathy Stinson chats with Deborah Ellis about her writing career and her sense of hope and Marylynn Miller Oke has a conversation with Margie Wolfe and Pnina Bat Zvi about writing The Promise in honour of their mothers. Andrew Katz and Juliana Léveillé-Trudel tell us what is was like writing How to Catch a Bear who Loves to Read/Comment attraper un ours qui aime lire in two languages and we feature S.K. Ali in our ‘Keep Your Eye On’ column. We have also included a fabulous list of LGBTQ+ titles in our ‘Bookmark!’ column to honour PRIDE events over the summer as well as more than 40 reviews of recently published KID LIT.