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
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Authors and illustrators (incomplete list)
Duncan Weller*
Kari-Lynn Winters
Kari-Lynn Winters, née Moore (born 1969) is an award-winning Canadian children's author, playwright, drama educator, and literacy professor. She taught children's literacy, literature, dance and drama education at the University of British Colum ...
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Shaun Tan
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John Marsden (writer)
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Iassen Ghiuselev
Iassen Ghiuselev (born 1964) is a Bulgarian illustrator of many classic stories including Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River.
Ghiuselev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1964. His father is the Bulgarian opera singer Ni ...
*Elisa Gutiérrez
*Matthew Porter
*Sara O'Leary
*Julie Morstad
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Thomas Aquinas Maguire
*Ryan Heshka
*Dan Bar-el
*Tamara James
*Christine Dencer
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Ashley Spires
Ashley Spires is a Canadian children's book author and illustrator. She is the creator of the ''Binky the Space Cat'' graphic novels series and the 2014 bestseller, ''The Most Magnificent Thing''.
Biography
Spires was born and raised in Tsawwas ...
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.
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Book publishing companies of Canada
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