Our Mission

To foster literacy and a love of reading among young people in Alberta through exposure to Alberta literary artists and their work.

About YOUNG ALBERTA BOOK SOCIETY

The Young Alberta Book Society is celebrated our 40th of literacy advocacy in Alberta in 2024. Our mandate is to get school-aged children and teenagers excited about reading, writing, illustrating and storytelling. We provide an exciting mix of programming that offers something for every school aged child and teenager in Alberta. Our signature event is Taleblazers, a month long touring festival that puts some of Alberta's finest professional authors, illustrators and storytellers for young people in schools and libraries across the province. Our other programs are Story Avenue, writing workshops for inner city school children grades 5-6 in Edmonton; the Onwords and Upwords tours, reaching students in rural communities; the Dr. Charles Allard Win-a-Literary-Artist Program; Seeds of Stories artist fee bursaries, and the Martyn Godfrey Young Writers Award. We house The Alberta Collection, a lending library of children's and youth books by Albertans.