Simply Read Books is a children's specific publishing house situated in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Awards (incomplete list)
Books published by Simply Read Books have won the following awards:
*Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature, Illustration
*Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
*Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada by the
Alcuin Society
Authors and illustrators (incomplete list)
Duncan Weller*
Kari-Lynn Winters
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Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...
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John Marsden (writer)
John Marsden (born 27 September 1950) is an Australian writer and unlicensed alternative school principal. Marsden's books have been translated into eleven languages.
While working as a teacher, Marsden began writing for children, and had his ...
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Iassen Ghiuselev
*Elisa Gutiérrez
*Matthew Porter
*Sara O'Leary
*Julie Morstad
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Thomas Aquinas Maguire
Thomas Aquinas Maguire is an American writer and illustrator of children's picture books. His first book '' A Growling Place'' was published by '' Simply Read Books'' in August 2007. His second release from Simply Read Books '' Three Little Drea ...
*Ryan Heshka
*Dan Bar-el
*Tamara James
*Christine Dencer
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Ashley Spires
Controversy
* Simply Read Books has had complaints of late payments, breaches of contracts, and other allegations by many of its authors. This publisher had been the subject of negative articles in Publishers Weekly, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company),
and the Quill and Quire.
References
External links
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Book publishing companies of Canada
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