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Inscribed seeks stories of ghosts and hauntings in Sault Ste. Marie, ON for upcoming book project. Anticipated publication date: February 2008. Length: 3000 words max. Payment: one copy of the anthology. Deadline: December 31, 2008. For more information or to submit: [email protected].

Small feminist publisher Second Story Press (ON) is currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts of special interest to women. Accepts fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. More details...

The Fiddlehead (NB) invites poetry and fiction from Canadian and international writers. Submit fiction (4000 words max.) and poetry (3 to 5 is best). Payment: $20 per published page, plus contributor's copy. Accepts submissions year-round. More details...

New publisher of "slim books for big minds" booksHANDmade (ON) is looking for creative people to submit poems and one-page stories about Canada for publication in a new book "One Hundred Pages". Publication to occur when 100 pieces have been accepted. No deadline. No remuneration. More details or to submit: [email protected]

Inscribed seeks stories of ghosts and hauntings in Sault Ste. Marie, ON for upcoming book project. Anticipated publication date: February 2008. Length: 3000 words max. Payment: one copy of the anthology. Deadline: December 31, 2008. For more information or to submit: [email protected].

Multicultural adoptions have become so prevalent that an entire genre has emerged, for kids and parents alike. “One of the most frequent requests we have,” says Nicole Harvey of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, “is by adoptive parents of Asian kids looking for ways to orient their children to their birth culture.” She likes especially the complex and popular Cooper’s Lesson by Sun Ying Shin.

On our own PaperTigers, the genre is explored in a review of Three Names of Me and an interview with Cynthia Kadohata, Newbery award winner and an adoptive parent herself. Franki at A Year of Reading, also an adoptive parent, reviews Caroline Marsden’s When Heaven Fell. Scroll down for her interview with Rose Kent, author of Kimchi and Calamari, additionally reviewed and interviewed at PaperTigers. Cynthia Letich Smith’s blog Cynsations has a great list of books on multicultural adoption.

You don’t have to be an adoptee or adoptive parent to appreciate these books, of course. As our world becomes smaller and families more diverse, we all need inspiration and information from this vital field of children’s literature.