Red Cedar Awards Gala 2016
Your Roving Reporter is back to write about the celebration last Saturday (May 7) which was the Red Cedar Awards Gala 2016. Students from various Red Cedar reading clubs MC’d […]
Category Archives: Bookish Events
Raincoast Books’ Teens Read Fall 2016 Preview
On Saturday, Nafiza and I got to go attend Raincoast Books’ Teens Read Fall Preview event. This is definitely a bookish event that I look forward to every year. We get […]
PSA: Red Cedar Award Gala 2016
Should you happen to be in or near Vancouver tomorrow (May 7, 2016), head to Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch for the Red Cedar Award Gala 2016! The Red Cedar […]
Farah Mendlesohn at Green College, March 11, 2016
The Rhetorics of Fantasy and the Rhetorics of Social Justice That is the title of the talk Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film […]
Patrick Ness at Kidsbooks, October 14, 2015
Your Roving Reporter was delighted to have the excuse last week to be able to quote shamelessly (and endlessly – I have four pages of scrawled notes to be deciphered […]
Word Vancouver 2015: Highlights
I attended Word Vancouver 2015 and very much enjoyed meandering around and outside the library, pausing to take in booths of the indie publishers. We don’t have any major publishers […]
Readathons: The 411
Readathons are quite popular around the blogosphere and booktube so I thought I’d post some information about them for our readers who might be interested in participating in one. Personally, […]
Red Cedar Book Awards Gala 2015
And your Roving Reporter is back (again) with news of another bookish event near you! Last Saturday was the 2015 Red Cedar Book Awards Gala. What’s so special about the […]
Jacqueline Woodson, May 8, 2015
Your Roving Reporter checks in to report on a bookish event near you! Last Friday, May 8th, Jacqueline Woodson spoke at UBC’s Robson Square campus in what was her first […]
A few quotes from Serendipity 2015
Last Saturday, the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable (VCLR) put on the annual Serendipity event. What is Serendipity? Well, basically the VCLR brings in really awesome* authors and/or illustrators and/or editors […]
The Book Wars 