Welcome to the TD Canadian Children’s Book Week Site
Join us in celebrating TD Canadian Children's Book Week and bring the magic of books and reading to children all across Canada!
TD Canadian Children's Book Week is the single most important national event celebrating Canadian children's books and the importance of reading. Every November, close to 35,000 children, teens and adults participate in activities held in every province and territory across the country. Hundreds of schools, public libraries, bookstores and community centres host events as part of this major literary festival.
This site contains valuable information about the history of Book Week; the plans for this year’s touring program; the costs involved in hosting a reading; information about the touring authors, illustrators and storytellers and the presentations they do; contact information for the Book Week Coordinators who are organizing the tours in your province or territory; and information about our popular Book Week Kit which can be used to celebrate Canadian books in the classroom, library or at home.
TD Canadian Children's Book Week is organized by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, in partnership with the Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada, and is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and funders.
Artwork by Wallace Edwards for Book Week 2009
TD Grade One Book Giveaway
Since 2000, in cooperation with ministries of education, school boards and library organizations across Canada — the CCBC has given every Grade One student a free Canadian children’s book. The book is to be taken home by each child to keep and to read with their parents. This far-reaching and innovative annual program, which provides over 500,000 books to Grade One children across Canada, is fully funded by the TD Bank Financial Group.
This November, Grade One children nation-wide will take home Let’s Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here, written by Lizann Flatt, illustrated by Scot Ritchie and published by Maple Tree Press. Learn More
