Canadian Aboriginal Children's Literature – PaperTigers' issue now live

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Canadian Aboriginal SymbolsOur April update over on the main PaperTigers website focuses on authors, illustrators and others involved in the field of Canadian Aboriginal Children’s Literature.

The First Nations peoples, along with the Inuit and the Métis are the three officially recognized aboriginal peoples of Canada. A tribute to their accomplishments, the new reviews, interviews and illustrators’ galleries currently highlighted on our website call attention to the richness of their literature and the distinctiveness of their voices and cultures. We hope you’ll take some time to enjoy these offerings and to encourage others to do the same.

Of course, we will be further exploring the theme of Canadian Aboriginal Children’s Literature here on our blog for the next two months. We would love for you to join in the conversation!

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A Library Cultural Festival to be held at the Opening of the National Digital Library – Korea

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Jenny Desmond-Walters, Regional Advisor for SCBWI -Korea, just emailed me this to share with our readers:

Hi Corinne,
I don’t know much about this event, but as I drove past the new National Digital Library in Seoul today, I noticed a sign for a grand opening festival to be held on May 25th and 26th. All I could find online was this blurb on the Canadian Embassy site. However, the library looks amazing and I’ve been planning to check it out so I figure these days might offer some interesting activities and exhibits.

May 25-26
A Library Cultural Festival to be held at the Opening of the National Digital Library
Location: National Library

On the occasion of the grand opening of the National Digital Library in Seoul, the international conference and library cultural festival will be held for two days. The Embassy will display Canadian books and information on Canadian culture with a particular focus on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our thanks to Jenny for passing this info. along and for offering to share her experiences with us. I live 45 minutes away from Downtown Vancouver so the 2010 Olympics are a hot item here. It will definitely be interesting to hear more from Jenny about this event! Be sure to check back here next week.

If there is an event happening in your area that you would like to share with us, we would love to hear about it! Please email me at corinne(at)papertigers(dot)org

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