Forest of Reading winners announced!

After two fantastic days of great weather, words and winning, it is clear that young readers in Ontario appreciate and applaud the great Canadian literature that the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading promotes.  At the Festival of Trees event at Toronto's Harbourfront yesterday and today, young readers celebrated the culmination of their reading programs with the announcement of the winning books.

Congratulations to:
• the readers on their amazing selections from exemplary lists of Canadian literature for young people;
• the countless volunteers and OLA staff who ensure that Ontario readers see the best titles and who help bring the Festival of Trees to fruition (pun intended);
• the authors and illustrators honoured with Forest of Reading nominations;
• the authors and illustrators who enjoyed the undeniable adoration of thousands of reading fans;
• the publishers who are recognizing the importance of publishing and promoting children's and YA literature in Canada; and
• the winners and honourees in each reading program. 

Here are the winners and honour books for each reading program:

Blue Spruce

WINNER

Giraffe and Bird
Rebecca Bender

Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books

HONOUR BOOKS

One Hockey Night

David Ward and Brian Deines

Scholastic Canada/North Winds Press 

Kiss Me! (I'm a Prince!)

   Heather McLeod and Brooke Kerrigan

   Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Silver Birch EXPRESS

   WINNER

When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew: Tales of Ti-Jean 

 Jan Andrews and Dušan Petričić 

Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

HONOUR BOOKS

The Time Time Stopped 

Don Gillmor 

Scholastic Canada

  

The Last Loon 

Rebecca Upjohn 

Orca Book Publishers

Silver Birch FICTION

 WINNER

Undergrounders 

David Skuy 

Scholastic Canada

HONOUR BOOKS

Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction 

Kevin Sylvester  

Simon and Schuster 

Ghosts of the Titanic 

Julie Lawson 

Scholastic Canada

Silver Birch NON-FICTION

WINNER

Don’t Touch That Toad & Other Strange Things Adults Tell You 

Catherine Rondina and Kevin Sylvester 

Kids Can Press

HONOUR BOOKS

50 Poisonous Questions: A Book With Bite 

Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Ross Kinnaird 

Annick Press

  

Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

Susan Hughes and Michael Wandelmaier 

Kids Can Press

Le Prix Tamarac

 WINNER

Secrets de Famille

Sylvie Marcoux
Éditions du Phoenix

HONOUR BOOKS

L’étrange affaire du 413 

Nadya Larouche
Éditions Vents d’Ouest

Le Prix Tamarac EXPRESS

                   WINNER

Les Dragouilles: Les Rouges de Tokyo 

Karine Gottot et Maxim Cyr
Éditions Michel Quintin

HONOUR BOOKS

Une Petite bouteille jaune 
Angèle Delaunois et Christine Delezenne
Éditions de l’Isatis                                                       

Le Zaillemeur

Marie-Pierre Meunier et Sébastien Pinard
Les Éditions Z’ailées

Red Maple Fiction

WINNER

Half Brother

Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada

HONOUR BOOK

Haunting Violet
Alyxandra Harvey
Walker & Company

White Pine FICTION

WINNER

The Gathering

Kelley Armstrong

 Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada

HONOUR BOOKS

Blood Red Road
Moira Young
Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada

  

Chance to Dance for You 

Gail Sidonie Sobat

Great Plains Publications

White Pine NON-FICTION

WINNER

The Book of Awesome
Neil Pasricha
Random House Canada/ Doubleday Canada

HONOUR BOOKS

Two Generals 
Scott Chantler
McClelland & Stewart

 Nice Recovery 

Susan Juby
Penguin Group Canada/Viking Canada