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Headquarters location
  
Toronto

Official website
  
www.annickpress.com

Founded
  
1975

Publication types
  
Books

Headquarters
  
Toronto, Canada

Country of origin
  
Canada

Founder
  
Anne Millyard and Rick Wilks

Distribution
  
University of Toronto Press (Canada)

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Annick Press is a Canadian book publishing company that was founded in Toronto in 1975 by Anne Millyard and Rick Wilks. Rick Wilks became the sole owner in 2000. A second editorial office was opened in Vancouver by Colleen MacMillan in 1999. Annick Press publishes approximately thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults per year.

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Annick Press is a member of the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario, and IBBY Canada. It was recently made a part of the Canadian government's "Read Up On It" programme through Library and Archives Canada.

Annick press award winning publisher of children and young adult literature


Notable authors

  • K.V. Johansen, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer award
  • Robert Munsch, a member of the Order of Canada and "Canada's best-selling author," who "sells more books than any other Canadian author every year".
  • Bill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1994
  • Roslyn Schwartz, creator of the Mole Sisters books and television programme

    • Awards

  • In 2014, The Man With the Violin, written by Kathy Stinson and illustrated by Dušan Petričić, won the TD Children's Literature Award
  • In 2009, Mattland, written by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Hebert and illustrated by Dušan Petričić, won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award from the Canadian Library Association
  • Leslie's Journal by Allan Stratton was named to the American Library Association's "Best Books for Young Adults" booklist

    • References

    Annick Press Wikipedia
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