“I Am A Rock” is featured on the CBC Kids Reads 2025 Shortlist!

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I Am A Rock by Ashley Qilavaq-Savard and illustrated by Pelin Turgut is featured on the CBC Kids Reads 2025 Shortlist!

The third edition of CBC Kids Reads, a literary celebration for young readers, will see CBC Kids friends joining up with celebrity readers Jay Baruchel, Anna Lambe, Andrew Phung, Kayla Grey and Josh Dela Cruz, to champion five Canadian picture books.

I Am A Rock is championed by Anna Lambe and Mosey Monster. You can watch Anna talk about reading with Gary here!

Mosey Monster is championing I Am A Rock because he is always amazed by how awesome nature is. Although he has never met a talking rock, he loved the way Miki Rock described life in the arctic. Mosey hopes to visit one day!

When asked why telling stories was important, I Am A Rock celebrity reader Lambe, said “it’s important to see how other people live their lives, what other people’s experiences are like and where they come from. Reading books from different places really allow you to have a bigger — and I think better — view on life.”

The winner of CBC Kids Reads 2025 will be announced in a half-hour special that will be available on Oct. 4, on CBC TV, CBC Gem and CBC Kids YouTube at 10:20 a.m. ET. An audience of kids and families will vote for the winning book in the live-to-tape special recorded at the Civic Centre Resource Library in Vaughan, Ont.

You can read more about the whole shortlist here!