Simply Read Books is a children's specific publishing house situated in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Awards (incomplete list)

Books published by Simply Read Books have won the following awards:

• Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature, Illustration
• Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
• Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada by the Alcuin Society

Authors and illustrators (incomplete list)

• Duncan Weller
• Kari-Lynn Winters
• Shaun Tan
• John Marsden (writer)
• Iassen Ghiuselev
• Elisa Gutiérrez
• Matthew Porter
• Sara O'Leary
• Julie Morstad
• Thomas Aquinas Maguire
• Ryan Heshka
• Dan Bar-el
• Tamara James
• Christine Dencer
• Ashley Spires^[2]

Controversy

• Simply Read Books has had complaints of late payments, breaches of contracts, and other allegations by many of its authors. This publisher had been the subject of negative articles in Publishers Weekly,^[3] the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company),^[4] and the Quill and Quire.^[2]