National Film Board puts works on paper

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is translating its works from the screen to the printed page with a new literary venture.

Firefly Books will be the official book publisher of the NFB.

The new partnership will see a series of literary adaptations of celebrated NFB animated and documentary films and media projects.

The inaugural program will launch this fall with the publication of a pair of children’s books adapted from Oscar-nominated films: The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker and My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts by Torill Kove.

It will also include the publication of George Hunter’s Canada: Iconic Images from Canada’s Most Prolific Photographer, an adaptation from the photo essay Legacies 150 — George Hunter featuring the work of the late pioneering photojournalist.