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Introducing Bibliovideo, the YouTube Channel All About Canadian Books for Young People

Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00 PM | Helena Aalto (Administrator)

Introducing Bibliovideo: a new YouTube channel launching next spring that will showcase videos on all aspects of Canadian books for young people and be the place for librarians, teachers, parents, book creators, reviewers and readers. The trailer premiered at the 2019 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards in Toronto last week. View the trailer here.

With funding from the Canada Council for the Arts' Digital Strategy Fund, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) has pulled together a consortium of key players in the kids' book community to steer the development of Bibliovideo. The channel will be a great place to connect with our books and will include fiction and non-fiction, new titles and old, and books in English, French and Indigenous languages.

“Everything we do at the CCBC is related to one central goal: to support and promote Canadian books for young people,” says Rose Vespa, Executive Director of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. “Bibliovideo, for us, is a new digitalized approach to something we have been working towards since the 1970s. This will be a new, collaborative, digital hub for everyone who loves reading.” 
 
Bibliovideo will be an exciting venue for promoting great Canadian books for kids and teens and we welcome your submissions to add to our playlists. “Help us take your passion for Canadian kids’ books from page to screen,” says Janis Nostbakken, Project Director. “We’re looking for a wide range of videos in English, French and Indigenous languages – author interviews, read-alongs, how-to demos from illustrators, publishers’ trailers, book reviews from teachers, parents or kids.”

Do you have ready-made videos that relate to Canadian children’s books? You can e-mail janis@bookcentre.ca with a title, video length and video description and she’ll include it in her database of prospective videos. 
 
The CCBC is committed to ensuring that there is better digital access and promotion of these exceptional Canadian books to raise awareness and promote literacy.

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