Video Resources
These videos by Second Story Press authors can be used for online teaching and home education purposes, or just to learn more about your favourite titles! You can find them (and lots more) on our Youtube channel.
Indigenous Authors
Jodie Callaghan, author of The Train, talks about her picture book with editor Gillian Rodgerson.
Michael Hutchinson, author of the Mighty Muskrats Mysteries, talks about what reconciliation means to him.
Joanne Robertson, author of The Water Walker, talks about Josephine-ba Mandamin and how she came to tell Josephine’s story for children.
Meet Jessica Outram, author of the historical mystery Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold, a middle grade adventure story about a young Métis girl!
Meet the four cousins who solve the cases in Michael Hutchinson’s Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series! The latest book, The Case of the Rigged Race, is available now.
October 20th is Spirit Day, an annual LGBTQ2S awareness day. Celebrate with Marty Wilson-Trudeau and Phoenix Wilson's picture book Phoenix Gets Greater, about a young Indigenous boy who is bullied for being feminine, but is empowered to embrace his true self by his family, who teach him about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people and their important role in Anishinaabe culture.
LGBTQ+
The virtual book launch of Sophie Labelle's YA novel, WISH UPON A SATELLITE. Author and comic artist Sophie Labelle discusses the importance of making young trans lives visible in May, 2022. Co-hosted by Glad Day Bookshop.
Second Story Press' Pride Panel in June 2022: Queer Authors Across Genres! An exciting discussion between authors Mary Fairhurst Breen, Dani Jansen, and Suzanne Meade.
Baby Board Books
Author and illustrator Farida Zaman takes you through her art process for her board book, I Want to Be...A Gutsy Girl's ABC!
Author and illustrator Farida Zaman talks about and reads from I Want to Be...A Gutsy Girl's ABC!
Picture Books
Rosemary McCarney reads from Every Day is Malala Day for World Read Aloud Day 2014. Find out more about Plan Canada at http://www.plancanada.ca.
Holocaust Remembrance Books - Elementary
Author Anne Renaud talks about Fania's Heart, and the real story behind her book.
Rebecca Upjohn talks about and reads from her picture book, The Secret of the Village Fool.
An ocean-liner carrying Jewish passengers can find no safe harbour during World War II. Turned away from port in Cuba, the USA, and Canada, the ship was forced to return to Europe where many of its passengers went on to die in the Holocaust. Part of Second Story Press' Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers.
Author Janet Wees tells the story of how she wrote her middle-grade nonfiction book When We Were Shadows. The book tells the story of Walter and his family as they stay one step ahead of the Nazis, hiding to save their lives.
Author Rona Arato talks about her book, The Ship to Nowhere, and the real story of the Exodus, the ship that smuggled 4500 Jewish refugees risking their lives to reach Palestine.
Author Janet Wees reads from her middle-grade nonfiction book, When We Were Shadows.
Holocaust Remembrance Books - Teens and Adult
Author Kathy Kacer talks about her YA book To Look a Nazi in the Eye. Written with Jordana Lebowitz, the book tells the story of Jordana's experience witnessing the trial of Oskar Groening, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews in the Holocaust.
Jordana Lebowitz, whose true story of witnessing the Nazi war criminal trial of Oskar Groening is told by Kathy Kacer in To Look A Nazi in the Eye: A teen's account of a war criminal trial, talks about how her life-changing trip to Germany began.
Teen Audiences
E. Graziani reads from her young adult (ages 12 & up) novel Breaking Faith. Breaking Faith is an unflinching look at teen mental illness and addiction.
Author E. Graziani reads from her mother's biography about World War II Italy during the Nazi occupation in her small Tuscan village. War in My Town is a poignant, heart-wrenching true story of survival and family life during the war.