CAROL MATAS

Thank you to Mimi Leyton for her wonderful review of Kai and the Golem in the Fall 2025 issue of  AJL News and Reviews from the Associatio...

Thank you to Donald Harrison of the  San Diego Jewish World  for this wonderful review. Donald Harrison understands what I was trying to do ...

Back (left to right): Mike Moroz, Tracy Schmidt, Kelly Hiebert, Belle Jarniewski  Front: Carla Compton, Carol Matas What an honour! The Mani...

Today is publication date for Kai and the Golem . Can't think of a better way to celebrate than to share this "Q&A" with D...

 Delighted to see A Storm Unleashed as a November Children's Book Pick in the Calgary Herald .  "This historical fiction of braver...

PJ Library will be distributing Zevi Takes the Spotlight to thousands of homes in December! Here's the cover of the PJ Library edition...

Absolutely over the moon with this review. Firstly, it is a well written review — too few of those! Secondly, the reviewer understood exactl...

Kai and the Golem has arrived! Was just thrilled to open the box and hold the book in my hands for the first time.  Available for preorder ...

I was thrilled to present A Storm Unleashed to teachers at the Manitoba Social Sciences Association Conference on October 24. We had two so...

I am honoured to be part of a Kristallnacht program sponsored by The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and The Jewish Federation of W...

Available now at Indigo and McNally Robinson Booksellers " A Storm Unleashed is an important book for our time. Mia is a 12-year-old ...

September 16 is pub day for A Storm Unleashed . Available for order at Indigo , which named it as one of Indigo's Most Anticipated Canad...

Kirkus has reviewed Kai and the Golem !  "... the sense of repetition (in particular, Kai’s refrain “That’s not what I want!”) is soot...

 Kids in Australia and New Zealand will soon be reading A Storm Unleashed .  This is the announcement made by my agent Amy Tompkins: "A...

ZEVI TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT has been chosen by PJ Library as a PJ Our Way Selection. And I have been honoured, too, and awarded the PJ Our Wa...

My new middle grade novel, A Storm Unleashed , will be out this fall with Scholastic Canada. Set in 1933-35 Berlin, it is the story of Mia a...

  Kai and the Golem, my second picture book, is slated for release on November 4, 2025. And we have a cover! Who knew a Golem could look so ...

Transatlantic Agency has just announced two book deals! And, I'm thrilled that both these new books will be published in 2025. Kar-Ben h...

 Yay! Zevi Takes the Spotlight has been included in the CCBC's  Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2024  in the Hi-Lo Middle Years Fic...

What a wonderful evening at McNally Robinson booksellers where I joined Sidura Ludwig, author of Swan  and Rising , and Colleen Nelson, auth...