Salon du livre 2018

Le Salon du livre de Montréal

Montreal Annual Book Show

41st Edition

November 14-19, 2018

Comme des géants 
Maison d'édition jeunesse

This Montreal's annual book faire, always held at Place Bonaventure, is extremely popular with Montrealers, especially with children. Loads of school buses bring children to the show, they crowed various kiosks, look through the books, and ask writers present at the show to sign the books they have just purchased.



I was gifted with a book by Nadine Robert, the editor of the publishing house Comme des géants, and I would like to bring it to your attention. The book Elsi was actually written by the editor herself, and it was skilfully illustrated by Maja Kastelich. Those are just the types of illustrations I remember in my own books when I was a child. It brought back the memories of my childhood and the delight I had to read and leaf through such books and to look at the attractive illustrations which made the book story come alive, bringing me right into the imaginary world created by the author.

The Christmas is fast approaching, so do not hesitate to visit this book show, and to purchase just the right book presents either for your child or any other children you might know and would like to bring some happiness to during the winter holidays.

The show presents a huge amount of books of any kind covering an immense array of subjects. One can find books not only for one's own reading pleasure but also for the friends and family.



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You can read more about the show in my other article here.

Visit the Salon du livre  website.
Visit Comme des géants website.

Salon du livre 2016 - René Derouin

René Derouin at Le Salon du livre de Montréal

Montreal Annual Book Show

November 16-21, 2016

This year, the very popular book faire at the Palce Bonaventure has a small gallery that showcases 10 books out of 12 written by the Quebec artist René Derouin, along with his three artistic creations and two more reproductions glued to the gallery's walls.

The books displayed also include two of Derouin's newest books which speak of Mexico. Derouin is a great lover of Mexico, of its culture and its people. His gallery is located right next to the Mexican pavilion. This year, Mexico is celebrated as a special guest of the Salon. 

The artistic corner dedicated to René Derouin is quite small and one could easily miss it if one plunges right into the centre of the exhibition hall filled to the brim with great quantities and varieties of books. Make sure you will not forget to visit it.

At the same time, the exhibition RAPACES - RAPTORS - RAPACES by René Derouin is presented at the Éric Devlin Gallery in Montreal from November 12 to November 27, 2016.

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For more information, visit the Salon's website.

Prix Québec / Wallonie-Bruxelles 2015

PRIX QUÉBEC/WALLONIE-BRUXELLES 2015
For Children's Literature

Le Salon du livre de Montréal 2015 was marked yesterday by the Awards Ceremony for the prestigeous  PRIX QUÉBEC/WALLONIE-BRUXELLES for Children's Literature. The prize is given every two years concurrently to authors or illustrators from Quebec and also to those belonging to the French Community in Belgium. This award comes with a cash prize of $ 3,500 for the winners and an additional financial assistance of $ 6,000 to their publishing houses so that they can ensure the books' promotion and marketing in their respective region. This year, the award specifically targeted the category "First novel for beginning readers".

Mélanie Rutten and Alain M. Bergeron

The winners for PRIX QUÉBEC/WALLONIE-BRUXELLES 2015 were:

For Wallonie-Bruxelles, author and illustrator Mélanie Rutten for her book L'ombre de chacun (éditions MeMo).

For Québec, author Alain M. Bergeron and illustarator Pierre-Yves Cezard for the book Le géant qui sentait les petits pieds (éditions Québec Amérique).

Pierre-Yves Cezard

For more information, visit the Salon's website.

Salon du Livre 2015

Le Salon du livre de Montréal 2015
November 19-23, 2015

If you like books and reading, you will once again enjoy the annual Le Salon du Livre de Montréal being held, as always, at the Montreal's Place Bonaventure. There are many rows of shelves with books of various kind, directed to divers age groups, interests, fields of knowledge, and all presented and promoted by a great number of different publishing houses. 

Some books at the Salon du livre are arranged in truly scupturesque manner.

A special tribute is being held at this year's Salon to Agatha Christie, whose exclusive exhibition will open at Montreal's Pointe-à-Callière (PAC) Museum on December 8, 2015. You can read more about it in my post here. 

Find the time to visit the Salon du livre, especially keeping in mind the quickly approaching holidays season and thus the upcoming traditional presents exchanges.

For more information, visit the Salon's website.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Collection, Volume II

Decorative Arts and Design
  Le Salon du Livre de Montréal

On November 15, 2012, at Le Salon du Livre de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has launched its Decorative Arts and Design book. This is the Volume II of their The Montreal Museum of Fine Art's Collection project. The book is of a large format (25 x 35 cm) and comprises 400 pages and 750 colour illustrations.

The book features some 750 works from the Museum's collection of over 15,000 decorative arts and design pieces. Forty experts have written essays and other various entries in the book. The book's graphic design was entrusted to the Orangetango agency. It will be distributed internationally by Les Editions de La Martinière (in French) and Abrams (in English).

The book was self-published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. MMFA is actually one of Canada's  leading publishers of art books with its own booth at Le Salon du livre de Montréal, where the Volume I of the same MMFA collection entitled Quebec and Canadian Art was also available to visitors for purchase. All together there will be 4 volumes in this MMFA book project. Volume III will have the title Cultures of the World and Fine Arts and will cover the museum's non-Canadian works. Volume IV will be Graphic Arts and Photography, The Michal and Renata Hornstein Collection of Old Masters, though I am not sure whether this would be its final title.

The just-launched Volume II - Decorative Arts and Design book - provides an overview of the MMFA's international collection which was founded almost 100 years ago in 1916 by F. Cleveland Morgan and was augmented in 2000 by a generous donation by Liliane Stuart of over 6,000 works of 20th century design.

Rather than subdivide the book into such categories as furniture, dinnerware and glassware, etc., under the initiative of the museum's director Natalie Bondil the book was subdivided into these 7 distinct sections: wood, paper, glass, ceramics,  metal, fibre, plastic and composite materials.

Below are photographs of some of the book's pages. This will give you an idea of the book's scope and beauty.

The book can be purchased at the MMFA's boutique and store.

To read more about the Salon du Livre de Montréal and to see pictures of this immensely popular and huge Montreal's book fair, visit the article about it my blog Now Event.