2024 Forest of Reading® winners announced

Over the past week and a bit, the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading®, a readers' choice award program, announced the winners at its annual Festival of Trees at Harbourfront and virtually. (All are available to view at here.)

Here are this year's winners and honour books for each reading program, as voted by young readers from JK to Grade 12.

 

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Winner

Benny the Bananasaurus Rex
Written by Sarabeth Holden

Illustrated by Emma Pedersen
Inhabit Media

Honour Books:

 

How to Party Like A Snail
Written by Naseem Hrab
Illustrated by Kelly Collier
Owlkids Books





 

  

Cocoa Magic
Written by Sandra Bradley
Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
Pajama Press

Reviewed here

Winner

Rock? Plant? Animal? How Nature Keeps Us Guessing
Written by Etta Kaner

Illustrated by Brittany Lane

Owlkids

Honour Books:

 

Deep, Deep Down
Written by Lydia Lukidis
Illustrated by Juan Calle Velez
Capstone Editions

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Written and illustrated by Jon Klassen

Candlewick

Reviewed here

Winner

Apartment 713
Written by Kevin Sylvester

HarperCollins

Reviewed here

Honour Books:

PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space

Written by Nathan Fairbairn

Illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn
Razorbill


 

Swept Away: Ruth Mornay and the Unwanted Clues

Written by Natalie Hyde
DCB

Reviewed here

Winner 

Animal Eyes: How Creatures See and How Their Eyes Have Adapted to Their World
Written by Françoise Vulpé 

Firefly Books

Honour Books: 

 

The Raven Mother
Written by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)

Illustrated by Natasha Donovan

HighWater Press

IsThisAnOlogy?
Written by Amanda Bulman and Ruth Lawrence 

Illustrated by Leon Chung

Breakwater Books

 

Winner

The Fort

Written by Gordon Korman

Scholastic Canada

Reviewed here

Honour Books:

The Last Saxon King
Written by Andrew Varga
Imbrifex Books

 
 

Squire
Written by Nadia Shammas

Illustrated by Sara Alfageeh
Quill Tree Books

Winner

Pieces of Me
Written by Kate McLaughlin
St. Martin’s Press/ Macmillan

Honour Books:

 

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Written by Zoulfah Katouh
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

 

Only This Beautiful Moment
Written by Abdi Nazemian
Balzer + Bray

Winner/Lauréat

L'oiseau rouge
Écrit et illustré par Élodie Duhameau

Les 400 coups

 

 

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

Pas de chevaux dans la maison!
Écrit par Mireille Messier
Illustré par Anna Bron
Orca

 

C'est mon corps!
Écrit et illustré par Élise Gravel
Scholastic

Winner/Lauréat

La chambre numéro 7
Écrit par Martine Latulippe
Illustré par Isabelle Malenfant
La courte échelle

 

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

Mina et sa bête
Écrit et illustré par Caroline Merola
La courte échelle

 

Alerte: culottes meurtrières! Fausses nouvelles, désinformation et théories du complot
Écrit et illustré par Élise Gravel
Scholastic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner/Lauréat

As-tu peur du loup?
Écrit par Véronique Drouin
Illustré par Lucille Danis Drouot
Bayard

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

 

Zipolaris 1: La nuit des morloups
Écrit par J.L. Blanchard
Fides

La balance du vide
Écrit par Julien Leclerc
Héritage jeunesse
 

 

Congratulations to everyone!

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