Telling Tales

🎉 Save the Date! 🎉 The 17th Annual Telling Tales Festival is happening Oct 4–5, 2025 at Hendrie Park, Royal Botanical Gardens! 🌿📚 Featuring stunning artwork by the amazing Sid Sharp—mark your calendars! 🗓️✨ #2025TellingTalesFestival

Join us for our first StoryScapes presentation of 2026 on Thursday March 12th with Marcus Cutler, showcasing his book "The Crayon Stub". Explore Canadian authors and illustrators from Telling Tales’ Reading List. Register here: tellingtales.org/educators/stor…

Telling Tales is excited to co-present White Pine Wednesdays. The Forest of Reading team has just released 3 new author visits and panel discussions with 7 of this year's nominees! Register Here: forestofreading.com/registration/ #TellingTales #WhitePineWednesdays #ForestOfReading

Join us January 23 in Waterdown for a reading of Spider in the Well and The Bear Out There with Jess Hannigan. Discover the art of writing and illustration and join in on family-friendly activities in celebration of Family Literacy Week. #HamOnt #Libraries #FamilyLiteracyWeek

Telling Tales is hiring an Indigenous Literature Selection Advisor for the 2026 Selection Advisory Committee. This role involves reviewing Indigenous-authored books to ensure respectful representation in our programming. Apply by January 25th : tellingtales.org/childrens-read…

Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for you to support the future readers, writers, and creators that Telling Tales serves. Donate Here: donorbox.org/tellingtales #GivingTuesday #SupportCreativity #FutureWriters #EmpowerReaders #LiteracyMatters #CreativeCommunity

Did you hear about Telling Tales through one of these channels this year? Telling Tales Media Partners allows us to spread the word about our festival and bring in thousands of families to enjoy stories, theatre, poetry, and lots of books!

TOMORROW! We've got our next StoryScapes presentations with Kid Haile, presenting his book "Sometimes I Eat With My Hands". Link in the bio to register.

We would like to congratulate our 2025 illustrator and Reading List Author Sid Sharp and 2025 Festival Headliner and Reading List Author Tanya Tagaq, on becoming a finalist for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Awards in the Young People's Literature category.

We love telling stories that JUMP off the pages. Our 2026 Festival will feature more song, dance, theatre, and poetry than ever before! Apply to be a Telling Tales’ 2026 Multi-Disciplinary Presenter by January 16, 2026, at 11:59 EST. Link in the bio to apply.

The time has come! We've been getting emails and dm's from authors nationwide wondering how they can present at the 2026 Telling Tales Festival and be featured in our year-round programming. Link in the bio to apply. Applications close January 16, 2026, at 11:59 EST.

Ever wonder how we choose the books on our Reading List each year? A committee of children’s story lovers reads and recommends all of our titles for our year-round programming, including the Telling Tales Festival! Deadline: Nov 30th, 2025. Link to apply is in our bio.

Join us for I READ CANADIAN day and celebrate a love for stories. In each session, you’ll meet a Canadian illustrator, hear a reading of the picture book they illustrated, and learn about how they create art in their own unique style. Link in the bio.

Help bring stories to life! Support a classroom receiving a set of featured books for just $500 and include a personal note inside each one. Goal: $1,500 = 3 classrooms inspired through StoryScapes! ❤️ Donate today at donorbox.org/tellingtales

🎨📚 Attention educators! Join a free virtual workshop series for Grades 1–6 featuring Canadian authors and illustrators from the Telling Tales Reading List! ✨ Upcoming sessions: 🖌️ Nov 5: Anoosha Syed ✏️ Nov 19: Kid Haile 🎨 Dec 3: Thao Lam

Do you have photos that you'd like to share that captured the magic of Telling Tales? Upload them to our Memento Album before Oct 31st! Email photos and videos to TellingTales25@submit.memento.com OR use this link in our bio to submit your photos

Thank you for joining a record 20,000+ guests for the 17th Annual Telling Tales Festival! We hope you enjoyed the FREE family fun and celebration of literacy at the Royal Botanical Gardens. Please take a moment to help us by filling out a post-festival survey. Link in the bio.

The Telling Tales Festival Begins Tomorrow! We highly recommend registering in advance for the Telling Tales Festival. To avoid the registration line up and to be fast-tracked through our pre-registration line up, please register before the festival. Link in the bio.

Great news, those coming from far and wide! The scheduled service adjustments to the Lakeshore West train have been rescheduled. See our Plan Your Visit page for all travel options

Fuel your jumps on the bouncy castle, reading under the sun, and painting with creativity partners. Here are your food options at the 2025 Festival. For those with food sensitivities or other reasons, please consider packing your own food.

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