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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are excited to announce that four of our titles were shortlisted for the 2026 PEI Book Awards! - The Baby Train by Stella Shepard - Ken's Corner by Katie Mac - The Floating Days by Susan Rodgers - The Sandcastle that Jack Built with words by Judith Graves and illustrations by Maurice Bernard

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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thebookishworm.bsky.social @thebookishworm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Book: Broken Crayons Written by Patsy Dingwell Art by Marla Lesage Published by Acorn Press @digitallylit.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social

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Woozles Children’s Bookstore @woozlesbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Tuesday, September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here are a few selected titles you can find on our shelves which discuss the importance of Orange Shirt Day, and the legacy of Canada’s Residential School system. #kidsbooksky

A selection of children’s books - covers and open - which discuss the legacy of Canada’s Residential School System, on a grey background.

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thebookishworm.bsky.social @thebookishworm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Looking for your next great book? Well look no further… @digitallylit.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Spring releases! • Flying High on PEI • Little Days • Dunk River Murders • Say What! Common Prince Edward Islands Sayings • Other Duties as Required: Stories from My Teaching Career • Tangled Turtle Rescue • Things That Stink #acornpress #readatlantic #newreleases #peibooks #canlit #smallpress

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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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Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

When a child finally meets a barred owl only his grandfather has ever seen, it's a wondrous connection. OWL by Kara Griffin, illus. by K. Shawn Larson from @acornpress.bsky.social Thanks for sharing @nimbuspub.bsky.social Great for #STEM too canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/12/owl.... 👍🇨🇦📚

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Owl

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This Wednesday! You're invited to a virtual reading with award-winning fiction author Susan White. Register via Eventbrite to join us - it's free! August 20th 7-8pm (Atlantic time) #acornpress #authorreading #readatlantic #lgbtqliterature #historicalfictionnovel

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Jonathan Dunphy @jonathandunphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Really enjoyed the performance of "The Creator's Plan" this afternoon at The Mack. Really beautiful work. @confederationcentre.com

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Confederation Centre of the Arts @confederationcentre.com · 11/07/2025

Meet Owl, Rabbit, Bear, Raccoon and Deer, the woodland creatures featured in 🦉THE CREATOR'S PLAN. This interactive lunchtime show for children and families is about identity and self esteem. Entry is by donation. 📆 Monday-Friday @ noon until Aug 1 📍The Mack ➡️ confederationcentre.com/event/the-cr...

Top half: 5 actors portraying a rabbit, a bear, a raccoon, an owl, and a deer | the creator's plan | dark stage with actors holding glowing moons

Written by Richard Pellissier-Lush and produced in collaboration with The Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors.

Please note that smudging/light smoke is an integral part of this show.

*No performance on July 28. Performances between July 29 and August 1 will take place in Memorial Hall.

The 2025 Charlottetown Festival is presented by Cavendish Farms.
Developed with support from TD Ready Commitment.

Photos by Simon Reid.

Actors on a stage portraying a rabbit, an owl, a raccoon, a deer, and a bear. The owl is drumming with a traditional Indigenous drum.

Six actors from The Creator's Plan on a stage, all with drums.

Two female actors in The Creator's Plan performing and portraying a smudging ceremony

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

If you're on the Island, don't miss this performance based on The Creator's Plan, a picture book by Richard Pellissier-Lush, illustrated by Jessica Jerome, and published by us last fall.

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thebookishworm.bsky.social @thebookishworm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Book: Kira’s Secret Author: Orysia Dawydiak Publisher: Acorn Press @digitallylit.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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 · 21/05/2025

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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Sassy Lassie Vintage @sassylassievintage.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Hi - sharing news about our seasonal store opening in June! ~~~ Sassy Lassie Vintage: Sassy, Classy, and a Little Badassy Offering books, art, and vintage decor. OPEN: WED - SAT JUNE - AUGUST 11 - 4РМ Albany, Prince Edward Island

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Daily #SmallPress #books #DSPBposts: Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (@acornpress.bsky.social) www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow...

Book cover for the children's picture book Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (Acorn Press) with a goose wearing ca.1945 aviator shades and a white scarf flying over Confederation Bridge. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow-the-goose-butt-to-prince-edward-island

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Nancy Taber @nancymltaber.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hello Bluesky! I'm a Canadian author who loves all things feminist, fantastical, and folkloric. And books, books, more books.

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Globe and Mail has a list of "Six Canadian mysteries you won't want to put down" and A SEA OF SPECTRES by @nancymltaber is featured alongside other killer reads. Watch for details on Nancy's next book, A Cove of Witches, releasing in 2026. #readatlantic #nancytaber #acornpress

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you’ve been having big feels lately…you’re not alone. The proof is in the wisdom and hope found in the words of our poets. Here’s to Poetry Month and to those who feed our souls with words from the depths their own. #readatlantic #peipoetry #poetrylovers #canadianpoetry #acornpress

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Watch for six amazing Acorn Press titles being featured in PEI Living Magazine's upcoming Women in Business issue. Both Acorn Press and PEI Living Magazine are Canadian, female-owned and operated. Whoot! #readatlantic #canadianpublishing #womeninspiringwomen #princeedwardisland #shoplocalcanada

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Mark your calendars! Bookmark is excited to be celebrating Deirdre Kessler’s contributions to the PEI literary community on Thursday, March 20th at 7 pm at the UPEI. Admission is free & everyone is welcome." #canadianauthors #readatlanticcanadianauthors #readatlantic #deirdrekessler #bookmarkPEI

Poster for event with author Deirdre Kessler holding a small animal, as well as three of her book covers, Darwin's Hornpipe, Afternoon Horses, and Lobster in my Pocket.

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It's Freedom to Read Week in Canada and we support the intellectual freedom of authors, illustrators, journalists, publishers...and the right of readers to have access to their works. Find out more: www.freedomtoread.ca

The 2025 Freedom to Read Week poster depicting an illustrated bee foraging flowers that look to be made from pages of books.

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 14/02/2025

“White’s characters are real people that you pass every day on the street.” A review of the latest novel from Susan White, published by @acornpress.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/such-a-win...

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Hardship and Regret with a Silver Lining: Such a Winter’s Day by Susan White

Reviewed by Laura Patterson

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Tidewater Books & Browsery @tidewaterbooks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Today's Featured #CanLit #KidLit in-store is 'The Creator's Plan' by Jessica Jerome Artwork & Richard Pellissier-Lush (#PEIAuthor!) Beautiful & Loving! 💕🇨🇦📚 tidewaterbooks.ca #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall #ThankYouForShopingLocal #Fallinlovewithlocal #SmallBusinessEveryDay @acornpress.bsky.social

Book: The Creator's Plan by Jessica Jerome Artwork & Richard Pellissier-Lush #PEIAuthor #CanLit tidewaterbooks

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Support Canadian authors and publishers you LOVE by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours… ~~~ Read Canadian. Your lives. Your stories. Our books. www.acornpress.com #readatlantic #acornpress #supportlocal #canlit #historicalfiction #lgbtq🌈

Such a Winter's Day book standing upright on a wood crate with a brick wall blurred in the background.

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Support Canadian authors and publishers by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours… The Creator's Plan - words by Richard Pellissier-Lush and art by Jessica Jerome ~~~ Read Canadian. Your lives. Your stories. Our books. #readatlantic #acornpress #canlit #kidlit #booksforkids #mikmaq

The Creator's Plan book standing upright on a wood crate with a brick wall background.

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Support Canadian authors and publishers by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours… Name Your Game by Marlene Campbell - a compelling story about family, and community and the ties that bind them. ~~ Read Canadian. Your lives. Your stories. Our books. #readatlantic #acornpress #canlit

Name Your Game book standing upright on a wood crate near a pair of vintage hockey skates and a brick wall.

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Support Canadian authors and publishers by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours… TURK: One of the NHL's Great Coaches: From Summerside to Madison Square Garden by Fred Macdonald with Glenna Jenkins Read Canadian. Your lives. Your stories. Our books. www.acornpress.com

The book, TURK, stands upright and on a piece of wood with a brick wall background.

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Author of Beautiful Sadness, a novel set in Prince Edward Island @lindajstewart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My novel has been on more vacations than I have.

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ajbjohnston.bsky.social @ajbjohnston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A Toronto-based film maker is exploring the possibility of turning my YA novel, Into the Wind, into a film. A “blue sky” idea, perhaps, but the story would transition smoothly from page to screen.

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