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The Association of Book Publishers of BC (Books BC) is a trade association, founded in 1974, whose aims are to foster an environment in which our members will flourish and to expand an awareness of the value of books in all our lives. We are a regional affiliate of the Association of Canadian Publishers.

For more information on our member-driven association go to Who We Are.

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News & Events

Books BC announces its 2024-25 Books for Schools program and online database for K-12 educators

October 16th, 2024

The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books BC) is excited to announce the 2024-25 edition of our Books for Schools database. Books for Schools helps BC and Canadian publishers to effectively reach the K-12 market while providing teachers, teacher-librarians, other educators, and booksellers in BC and Canada with a free community resource to find suitable and appropriate books for the K-12 audience.

Our BC Books for Schools and Indigenous Books for Schools collections have been long-standing initiatives of the Association since 2007. BC Books for Schools comprises BC-published titles, and Indigenous Books for Schools includes Canadian-published titles by Indigenous creators. Both collections are now available as a combined database on BooksForSchools.ca supported by enhanced search functionality and accessibility for users. The database is updated annually, with a total of 324 titles in the BC Books for Schools collection and 260 titles in the Indigenous Books for Schools collection so far.

“We are incredibly proud of the evolution of this book program, which began as print catalogues mailed to every school in BC and has now become a free searchable database. It’s the easiest way to find BC books for BC students, as recommended by BC teachers and with links to curriculum,” says Leslie Bootle, Executive Director of Books BC, of the BC Books for Schools program.

The titles are selected and evaluated by qualified K-12 educators from BC, and annotations include a descriptive review, grade level and curriculum matches, and theme mapping. The titles in the Indigenous Books for Schools collection undergo an additional evaluation for authentic Indigenous Voice, an evaluation process developed by the program’s lead education consultant Jackie Lever based on Dr. Greg Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style.

Books BC would like to thank our funders for their continued support of this program, in particular the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC, and the City of Vancouver.

Learn more about the database and our unique evaluation process and find hundreds of evaluated K-12 books at BooksForSchools.ca.

Books on Screen at VIFF 2024

October 10th, 2024

On October 3rd, 2024, Books BC partnered with the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) and Creative BC to present the first Books on Screen event since 2018. This half-day event in partnership brought together BC screen-based content creators with BC publishers to pitch and discover intellectual property, build relationships and leverage existing material for optioning and development. The event took place during the Vancouver International Film Festival at their main venue and included a public-facing industry panel with members of the creative team from Murder In a Small Town (Global/FOX), a new drama series co-produced by local producers and based on BC writer L.R. Wright’s novel. Curated B2B meetings between producers and publishers took place in 25 minute sessions throughout the event. Thank you to all of the publishers and producers whose participation made this event a success!

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