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Judith Graves

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Author, illustrator, vintage decor lover. A TALE OF TWO KITTIES, Acorn Press, 2023. The ANNEthology, Acorn Press, 2024. Living on beautiful Prince Edward Island. I am Canadian.🇨🇦 #SCBWI #SCBWICanada #canscaip #kidlit #YAlit

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’m celebrating the release of my second picture book, The Sandcastle that Jack Built (words by me / art by Maurice Bernard), this spring with the lovely group of Canadian authors and illustrators at Pictures Books, eh! Follow @picturebookseh.bsky.social for info on all the releases in 2025!

A screenshot of the Picture Books, Eh landing page on their website.

The cover of The Sandcastle that Jack Built depicting a boy on the beach, building a sandcastle from Prince Edward Island’s famous red sand.

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Sep 29

A few fall pieces I finished recently…

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 22

5/18 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @haikuboxer.bsky.social @suegoyette.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ‪‪@danilabotha.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social @judithgraves.bsky.social

Book cover for Future Howl by Pat Lowther and Bliss Carman award-winning poet Sue Goyette ‬ (Gaspereau Press), with a letterpress wolf on a brown background. Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time. http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472796

Book cover for Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (Guernica Editions), with a woman covered in orange glitter leaning her head back sensually, the image cut off at her lips, her hair a luscious fall along one side. This is Danila Botha’s third collection of short fiction. From the bullied twelve-year-old to the sculptor who builds a golem and fulfills her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s wish to protect her sister to a student who overdoses on opiates and meets an adult Anne Frank, these stories pulse with Botha’s signature empathy and originality. As in her previous collection, the Trillium- and Vine-nominated For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, this collection will make you laugh and cry, but above all it will make you feel less alone. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/things-that-cause-inappropriate-happiness

Book cover for children's book The Sandcastle That Jack Built by Judith Graves‬, illustrated by Maurice Bernard (The Acorn Press) with a boy in a backwards baseball hat building a sandcastle by the ocean. At once familiar and fresh, The Sandcastle that Jack Built is a lyrical and playful version of the traditional nursery rhyme. In this updated classic, Judith Graves’s beautiful text is perfectly accompanied by rich, vivid illustrations from renowned Island artist and sandcastle sculptor, Maurice Bernard. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/the-sandcastle-that-jack-built

Book cover for My Thievery of the People: Stories by Leila Marshy (Baraka Books), with a pensive person looking down and over their shoulder. From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of Montreal city work and the deceptive perils of the Quebec countryside, these brilliant short stories lay bare the workings of power and the small acts of both courage and compromise by which those on the margins defy them. Marshy’s distinctive style and untamed strength guides the reader in an electrifying high-wire act through the inner lives of refugees, queers in love and grief, wives, workers, and so many others fighting their way out from under. Beautifully cohesive across a stunning depth and range of setting and subject, no one is innocent in My Thievery of the People. https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/my-thievery-of-the-people/

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jul 4

I knew creating this book/art/vintagy space would be a fun challenge, but it’s become the very best kind of soul food. If you’re in PEI, check us out: @sassylassievintage.bsky.social

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The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social · May 27

New on #Bibliovideo! See all the highlights of Canadian Children's Book Week 2025.

Watch: youtu.be/P9Qt-dbYlhE

Canadian Children's Book Week 2025: Your Story Matters

YouTube video by Bibliovideo

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks for sharing!

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 1

4/10 Threshold: Stories by Carol Bruneau @cbruneau83.bsky.social (Vagrant Press/Nimbus Publishing @nimbuspub.bsky.social) & The Sandcastle That Jack Built by @judithgraves.bsky.social, illustrated by Maurice Bernard (@acornpress.bsky.social)

See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #CanadaDay

Book cover for Threshold: Stories by Carol Bruneau (Vagrant Press/Nimbus Publishing), with a vibrant painting of lupins and flowers lining an oceanside path. Nominated for the 2025 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree. https://nimbus.ca/store/threshold.html

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Alison McGauley @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social · May 26

Please sponsor my Gutsy Walk to help find a cure for #IBD
crohnsandcolitiscanada.akaraisin.com/.../a85f3baa...
Please purchase a copy of KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE (ppl in KW / Cambridge area) through my website with ALL profits going to Crohn’s & Colitis CAN: www.alisonmcgauley.com/contact
#kidlit

On a red background, we see the gutsywalk.ca and crohn's & colitis logos, the book Kenzie's Little Tree by Alison McGauley & Emilie Leduc, a picture of Alison's Gutsy Walk page and the text, "Order KENZIE'S LITTLE TREE at alisonmcgauley.com. ALL profits go to Crohn's & Colitis Canada. Donate to my walk at gutsywalk.ca. Thank you."

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Jami Gigot @jamigigot.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thanks for the lovely review!!! canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

The Bigfoot Field Guide to Campers (and Other Mysterious Creatures)

Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thanks, Karen!

Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Check out this list of Canadian books for children and teenagers to read this summer — and listen to The Next Chapter’s kids panel of CBC Books producer Lucy Mann lucyalicemann and Canadian author and podcaster Bee Quammie @beequammie who highlight a few of their faves!

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jun 10

Me, Maurice, and Carter…the boy who Jack was modelled after. Such a fun event! Thanks to all the kind souls who joined us. ;) The Sandcastle that Jack Built is available online and in bookstores. #judithgraves #readatlantic #mauricebernard @acornpress.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks for sharing!

Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Jun 9

Check out all the fun activities at the Arts Fest! Like my book launch with Maurice Bernard for The Sandcastle that Jack Built. Tomorrow, June 10, 1-2pm at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre! #sassylassievintage #ReadAtlantic #booklaunch #kidlit #picturebooks

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 27

The lovely Miss Winter who looks amazing in the almost-summer-golden-hour sun. #mybffhaspaws

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · May 25

Join us to celebrate the release of Linda Stewart’s new novel Place of Miracles!

Date: Sunday, June 8th
Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Plough the Waves Hall, Wood Islands Welcome Centre
13056 Shore Road, Wood Islands, PE
@lindajstewart.bsky.social #readatlantic #acornpress

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · May 21

Announcing THE SANDCASTLE THAT JACK BUILT, written by Judith Graves and illustrated by renowned Island artist Maurice Bernard. Part of Summerside's ARTS FEST 2025, organized by Wyatt Heritage Properties.

Tuesday, June 10
Lefurgey Cultural Centre
Time: 1pm – 2pm
@judithgraves.bsky.social #booklaunch

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 21

It's almost book launch party time! THE SANDCASTLE THAT JACK BUILT is having its birthday party as part of the Summerside ARTS FEST 2025.

June 10
1-2pm
Lefurgey Cultural Centre
Summerside, PE

I know it's a Tuesday afternoon, but...take a beach day with us! 📕🏖️😎

@picturebookseh.bsky.social

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 13

It’s a busy book year for me and I’m super excited for my upcoming (Fall 2025) picture book release with @acornpress.bsky.social THINGS THAT STINK! This one is informative and stinking cute. Lol #kidlit #readatlantic #canscaip #picturebookseh #scbwicanadaeast

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 9

Thanks so much! 🩷 It’s half of an old oyster boat from a bay nearby and will hold the children’s books.

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 9

After almost 30 years as a library technician…setting up books in my own shop…damn, this is surreal. And so…meant to be. Lol #sassylassievintage #peivintage

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day! 🐾

Whether it’s a dog, a cat, a bird, a bunny, if you can adopt, I promise it’ll be one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever done.

In honor of shelter pet adoptions, here’s Lucky on his very first day with us after he came to his furever home.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Apr 16

Orwell's 1984 wasn’t meant to be a how-to guide, but here we are. This October, join the fight for the freedom to read.
The theme for #BannedBooksWeek 2025 is Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.
Planning to participate? Apply for a Krug Fund grant by April 30!
www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 (the word censorship is crossed out with a red line), Read for your rights. ala.org/bbooks

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · Apr 16

It’s official…spring has sprung here. Maybe.🤞