In Memory: Sheila Barry

Photo courtesy of Heather Camlot; used with permission.By Melanie Fishbane
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

On the 21st of November, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre held its annual Canadian Children’s Book Awards, an evening devoted to awarding the best in children’s literature. Among the always decadent dishes and clinking glasses, there was feeling that something was missing—or someone.

A little less than a week before, on the 15th of November, Groundwood’s publisher, Sheila Barry,...