About Education Central
Education Central is a collection of hundreds of classroom-ready learning resources created by experts and designed to be used with Groundwood Books–books that may already be in your classrooms and libraries or books new to you and your students.
The books and their related resources are sorted into topic collections, each of which will guide you to activities that will help your students discuss and understand the big ideas in today’s world. As the world changes, more newsworthy topic collections will be introduced on Education Central, creating a living set of timely, compelling books and easy-to-access learning resources.
Browse by age range, topic collection, and activity type, then print or copy resources to use in your lesson plans and learning management systems.
Contact us with questions or feedback about Education Central or our resources.
About Groundwood Books
Groundwood Books was founded in 1978 by Patricia Aldana with a mandate to publish children’s books of the highest possible quality for all ages, which has grown to include fiction, picture books, graphic novels and nonfiction. Our award-winning, critically acclaimed list is known for being ahead of the curve, justice oriented, and unafraid of tackling stories that may be considered difficult or controversial — but always centered on a child’s point of view. We believe that books can be important without sacrificing warmth, beauty, playfulness and humor.
Our primary focus has been on works by Canadians, although we are often moved to publish outstanding literature from other countries. Many of our books tell the stories of people whose voices have been underrepresented or marginalized by traditional publishing channels. Books by the Indigenous Peoples of this hemisphere have always been of special interest, and since 1998, we have been publishing works by Latinx authors and illustrators in both English and Spanish.
We believe that by reflecting intensely individual experiences, our books are of universal interest. The fact that our authors are published all over the globe attests to this and to their quality. Even more important, our books are read and loved by young people around the world.
Groundwood Books respectfully acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the Traditional Territory of many Nations, including the Anishinabeg, the Wendat and the Haudenosaunee. It is also the Treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
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