WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

Everybody’s excited - and they’re telling us about it!

Check out...

• What the Press Are Saying
• What Our Readers Are Saying
• And if you're the media, please download the Press Release and our "Top 10 Stories by Province" so that you can get a feeling of the regional nature of the book and use stories that are meaningful to YOUR readers. To learn more, or to reach Janet Matthews for an interview, please contact her at 905-726-8000 or Email: janet at canadiansoul.com - (please replace the "at" with @ for the above address to avoid spam).
  

Did you know we’ve sold over 100,000 copies of Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul since its release in September, 2002?

That's 20 times more than the definition of a bestseller in Canada! (if you don’t want to do the math - 5,000 is considered a best seller in Canada!)

We have...

• Made #1 with W.H. Smith and Coles (for weeks!)
• Made #1 on the Quill and Quire Inside Report bestseller list several times in fall 2002
• Made #1 on the Winnipeg Free Press on Sept.22!
• Remained in the top 5 With Chapters/Indigo and other lists, all across Canada for weeks
• Been in the Top Ten on the Toronto Star list for 4 months.

Author cooks up Canadian soup by Mitchell Brown, Richmond Hill Liberal

A book that's soul food for the heart by Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun

I'm Canadian, and I'll touch your soul by John J. Seagrave, Above and Beyond - Canada's Arctic Journal, the in-flight magazine of First Air

CanAjun, eh? by Margaret A. Hatfield-Herman, As read by CBC Radio's All in a Weekend host Shelley Pomerance

Vilagos twins still in synch by Marc Lalonde, The Chronicle

A tale of love and redemption by Thomas Winterhoff

Local resident's work in latest Chicken Soup book by Angela Crich, Sarnia This Week

Along with our contributing authors, we continue to receive emails and letters every day from folks telling us how much they appreciate the stories, the people in them, and themselves for being Canadian.

We have heard from...

• Teenagers
• Canadians living abroad
• Americans who love being remembered
• Our Armed Forces personnel who thank our authors for sharing their experiences
• Mothers who are touched by our “child heroes”
• Executives of our national sports associations who are thrilled with the attention to amateur sport.
• Teachers thanking us for creating this special book

Please keep writing to us and to our contributing authors (see About Our Authors for how to contact them) and we will keep sharing with everyone.

“At last, there’s some uplifting reading for the northern soul.”
“The 84 stories of courage, love, kindness, perseverance, loyalty and other Canadian virtues offer enough uplift to put Air Canada out of business.”
- Judy Stoffman, The Toronto Star, Aug 27, 2002

“Stories to melt even the hardest hearts”
“In a country where it takes a beer commercial to stir national pride, capturing our Canadian identity in a collection of personal stories is not a small undertaking. It’s a job for the Chicken Soup crew.”
- Lisa Monforton, The Calgary Herald, Thursday October 10, 2002

We have put together a Press Release and a list of the highlights from our Top Ten Stories by Province.

Canada’s geography defines who we are - open, diverse, passionate, courageous, peace-loving, warm (well, sometimes for a few weeks every year), welcoming, and it goes on.

We want you to know some of the people in YOUR neighbourhood so you can contact them in person to hear more of their story. And while some of those heroes belong to all of us like Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, we know British Columbia is generous enough to share them with us.

Please download this media kit to read more. To learn more, or to reach Janet Matthews for an interview, please contact her at: 905-726-8000 or Email: janet at canadiansoul.com - (please replace the "at" with @ for the above address to avoid spam).

Many of our contributing authors have allowed us to put their contact information and a link to their web site where available on the About Our Authors page. They like to share, too.