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The official 2025 Children’s Book Week poster was created by Julie Flett, beloved and award-winning illustrator and author. The poster features this year’s Children’s Book Week slogan, An Ocean of Stories. This slogan celebrates the vast, collective ocean populated by the stories we read, share, and tell.
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It was such an honour to be asked to participate in this year’s Children’s Book Week celebration. Every Child a Reader gave me a few slogans to choose from and I loved them all. It made it hard to choose. I could feel the love of the people who work with the CBC and ECAR, the care they put into the work and celebration of story for kids. In the end, An Ocean of Stories stood out to me. Water stories have been on my mind and it just felt right for this one.
I had so many thoughts on our connections to water. I thought about Autumn Peltier’s work, and all of the people who are working to care for the water at this time.
I also thought about all of the stories we have as children and our relationship to the water. I remember when we’d drive out to my grandma’s place in the summer, I’d jump out of the car and run straight to the river behind their place to start looking for frogs and turtles. I’d spend hours out there sitting on a rock, dipping my hand into the water or peering into the deepest parts to day dream. And then thinking about the summer we spent in Nova Scotia by the ocean and all of the sea creatures we got to know there.
The image of a child on an adventure in a little boat meeting a friendly sea turtle, seal and seagull while all of the stories of the sea are happening underneath seemed like a good start, and a fun way to introduce this year’s Children’s Book Week celebration.
It’s just been a great project all around. It was so lovely to collaborate with Greystone Kids on the project as well. Everyone who worked on it brought it together for this celebration of children’s books and reading!
I hope everyone has fun choosing stories to read together, whether they’re stories about the sea, new and old, fiction or nonfiction, whether you read inside, at the library or home, or outside, by the water, enjoy the week together!
Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis artist and an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children including Birdsong, We All Play, Let’s Go! and My Friend May, amongst many others. She is the recipient of prestigious literary prizes including the New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor, the National Museum of Wildlife Art Illustration Award, and the American Indian Youth Literature Award. Her books have landed on Best of the Year lists with outlets such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Flett lives in British Columbia, Canada.
Launched in 1919, Children’s Book Week will commemorate its 106th anniversary in 2025. It is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. Email cbc.info@cbcbooks.org with questions.
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