Early One Morning and Bedtime, Not Playtime!, a pair of board books featuring LGBTQ+ families which recently ignited controversy over homophobic laws in Hungary after a bookshop was fined for selling them, will be published in English and French in North America from Orca Book Publishers on September 14.
Middle-schoolers wishing for a more normal summer experience will be able to enjoy the summer camp escapism of a heartwarming, coming-of-age story in The Sun Will Come Out by Joanne Levy.
Watch the video or read the transcript from the Growing Up Activists panel, where four Orca authors shared their experiences writing about and learning from people who dreamed big to change the world.
Author and illustrator Jane Heinrichs explains where she got the idea for Every Home Needs an Elephant and shares the different forms the story took along the way before she realized that a hybrid graphic novel was the perfect one.
Check out new interviews with Eric Walters about The King of Jam Sandwiches, winner of the 2020 Governor Genera’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature – Text!
