Canadians read youngCanLit on CBC Kids' Bookaboo

CBC Kids has brought world-famous Bookaboo, the rock star drummer puppy created by Lucy Goodman, to Canada!  Bookaboo is the very cool dog who cannot play his drums (i.e., he has no BoJo) unless he is read one book a day.  The popular pup, produced by Happy Films, originally for a British TV series in 2009, will now star in a short video series for CBC Kids, with well-known Canadian personalities reading picture books, many of which are youngCanLit, to the cool dude puppy.

Image from http://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/images/Bookaboo-highres.jpg

If you can, tune into these readings on CBC weekdays at 10:00 a.m. and on Saturdays at 7:15 a.m.  These readings are also available on the CBC TV channel on YouTube.

Because what I do here is promote youngCanLit, I've included the links to those videos in which picture books by Canadian authors and illustrators are showcased.  Here they are:

• Peter Mansbridge reads Mélanie Watts' Scaredy Squirrel

• Jian Ghomeshi reads Barbara Reid's Subway Mouse

• Fefe Dobson reads Robert Heidbreder's Drumheller Dinosaur Dance 

• Jeff Stinko reads Dave Whamond's My Think--Ma-Jink 

• Cathy Jones reads Nicholas Oldland's The Busy Beaver

• Anthony Calvillo reads David Bruins and Hilary Leung's The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear 

• Hugh Dillon reads Katie Van Camp's Cookiebot!: A Harry and Horsie Adventure

• Jacob Hoggard reads Linda Bailey and Colin Jack's Toads on Toast

• Joannie Rochette reads Geneviève Côté's Mr. King's Things

• Nico Archambault reads Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin's Stanley's Party

• Bret Hart reads Ashley Spires' Larf 

If additional readings of youngCanLit are uploaded, I'll be sure to make readers of CanLit for LittleCanadians aware of these.  Meanwhile, enjoy these readings as an alternative format for sharing youngCanLit with your children.