Colleen Nelson

Another summer has come and gone, but before we also bid farewell to the Summer Reading Challenge for Kids, we’ve collected a second batch of reviews submitted by a crew of young critics who offered their thoughts on several books from our reading lists curated in conjunction with McNally Robinson B…

Here are the Canadian middle-grade books we can’t wait to read this season.

The second edition of the Winnipeg Free Press Summer Reading Challenge for Kids launched in June, providing readers aged 7 to 15 with book lists curated by our partners at McNally Robinson Booksellers. In addition to providing various reading guides and resources to help with comprehension as they w…

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A large white cross that stood on a popular mountaintop lookout point on Canada’s Vancouver Island for decades was cut down and removed at some point in the last week – and some have called for it to be replaced by a totem pole.

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The Winnipeg Free Press’s Summer Reading Challenge for Kids is officially back in session. An offshoot of our Free Press Book Club, the Summer Reading Challenge for Kids offers reading lists for three age groups — 7 to 9, 10 to 12, 13 to 15 — each of which includes four books carefully curated by ou…

Children's & YA Literature  Literacy Daily

Two Winnipeg authors are finalists for the Governor General Literary Awards.

The $25,000 prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories. The winners will be announced on June 1, 2021.

Here are the Canadian YA books we are excited to read in the first half of 2021!

Frankie Doe, the 17-year-old protagonist of Colleen Nelson’s impressive new novel, is a consummate outsider. Found in an alley as a young girl with no memory of her past, she has endured a series

Montana writers made up half of this year’s winners of the High Plains Book Awards, selected from 223 nominations across 12 categories.

Here are the books coming out this season we can’t wait to read!

The howls of a wolf can raise the hair on our necks, especially at midnight. Ted Rechlin, author and illustrator, presents a fresh look of this ancient predator with a

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Lauren Ho’s ‘Last Tang Standing’ is described as ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ meets ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and it makes for a wonderful read.

My hijab was part of me; turning away from it meant denying who I was. ~ Sadia

Colleen Nelson (Blood Brothers; Sadia) creates a modern and original story in her latest YA novel, nicely capturing the inner turmoil of teenagehood, cranking the drama up to 11. Dizzy is a spirited

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