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2020 FOLD Kids Book Fest

One Earth: Youth Rally for the Planet

The Young Reader’s Book Club with Nafiza Azad

This Really Happened: True-to-Life Stories for Young Readers

Not So Different

After Hours: Getting Reel with Adam Garnet Jones

Cherishing Indigenous Languages in Picture Books

What’s the Buzz: 2020’s Best Canadian Titles for Teachers, Parents & Librarians

Fantastic Fiction for Young Readers

2020 Off Season

The Young Readers Book Club with David A. Robertson

Decolonizing Education: On Restorative Justice in Schools

2021 Off Season

What’s the Buzz: 2021’s Must-Read Canadian KidLit Titles

FOLD 2020

FOLD 2020: What We Found

FOLD 2020: Words without Borders

FOLD 2020: FOLD Lite

FOLD 2020: Fractured Fairytales

FOLD 2020: Better Bring the Book Club

FOLD 2020: Fighting Injustice with Fiction

FOLD 2020: Five Years of FOLD

FOLD 2020: Reconciliation and Resistance Part 1

FOLD 2020: Reconciliation and Resistance Part 2

FOLD 2020: The Art of Craft Trans Brilliance Edition

FOLD 2020: The Politics of Theatre

FOLD 2020: Translation Duel Duel de Traduction

The Festival of Literary Diversity is Going Virtual for 2020

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What's on your TBR list for #TitleTuesday? Today we're diving into the words of @KimiaEslah, whose novel SISTER SEEN, SISTER HEARD is out now with @fernpub. Get your copy today!

We can't think of a better way to start the week than by celebrating this fact: poetry is everywhere. Thank you for your words and your brilliance, @dodelisca! #MondayMotivation

Today's #FoldProgramFriday post comes to us courtesy of @Leanne.Charette.Poet, whose wonderful poem "Infinitive: A State Of Being" was published in our 2022 FOLD Festival Program.

You can read the poem in full on our website today!

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Look at these wonderful smiles! Today's #ThrowbackThursday photo takes us back to EDUCATE ME, our panel with @AnnYKChoi, @UzmaJalaluddin, @BenPhilippe, and @haamyue at #FOLD2019. Can wait to see your smiling faces at FOLD again in the future!

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It's one of our favourite days of the week--#TitleTuesday! Today we're curling up with WHEN WE LOST OUR HEADS, the latest from @oneillreads. Available today wherever you get your books.

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Today, we're starting our week off with these powerful words from @KaiChengThom at #FOLD2022. Here's to a world where ALL bodies are seen and celebrated, and no one is left behind. #MondayMotivation

[Image description: a purple square graphic with a quote from author Kai Cheng Thom--author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE--in white text: A world where no body is left behind -- but a world where every body is also SEEN. That is my dream. Beneath the text is a hashtag, #MondayMotivation, and a website: thefoldcanada.org.]

Curling up this weekend with “Dil Soji”, by @giammi.v, published in the 2022 FOLD Festival Program.

Catch the poem in full on our website today!

[White square graphic with an excerpt from the poem “Dil Solji”, by Gian Marco Visconti, published in the 2022 FOLD Festival Program. Beside the text is a black and white outline illustration of an anatomical heart.]

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For the September FOLD Challenge, we are reading BIPOC authors from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand! Featuring titles from Becky Manawatu, Safdar Ahmed, Eugen Bacon, and Alice Pung. Check out our recommendations on the FOLD website--and let us know of others you might want to recommend! #FoldChallenge #ReadingChallenge #DiverseLit #AmReading

Today for #TitleTuesday we are curling up with some translated literature courtesy of @DundurnPress! The wondrous world of CELIA, MISOKA, I--written by Xue Ywei and translated by Stephen Nashef--has us spellbound. Get your copy today, wherever you get your books!

Starting our week off with these powerful, affirming words from editor extraordinaire Aeman Ansari. Take note, BIPOC writers! #MondayMotivation #Editing #AmWriting

This #FoldProgramFriday, we’re floating up into the stars with “Constellations Are For The Tame”, by Amal Rana. Read this and other beautiful work in our 2022 Festival Program, available now on the FOLD website at thefoldcanada.org!

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It was so wonderful to see so many people back in person at this year’s May festival—an experience we can’t wait to have again at this year’s @foldkids!

Keep your eye out for more news about our upcoming kidlit festival—featuring a mixture of in-person, virtual, and hybrid sessions. Registration opens October 6!

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