CanLit for LittleCanadians: Festival of Trees

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April 19, 2023

Forest of Reading®: Festival of Trees coming soon

If it's April, then young readers are voting for their favourite books in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading® award programs. And those votes will be tallied and awards announced at the Festival of Trees. These award ceremonies were always a big event at Toronto's Harbourfront, though over the pandemic, award ceremonies were conducted online. For the first time in several years, young readers will have the opportunity to attend in-person events which include workshops by authors and/or illustrators, get their books autographed by authors, and cheer in person when the award winners are announced. The Festival of Trees will be held from Tuesday May 16 through Thursday May 18, 2023. If you're still not convinced to attend (tickets available here), check out the full schedule of events below.

TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2023

SILVER BIRCH EXPRESS

AWARD CEREMONY 10:30-11:30 AM

WORKSHOPS

11:45 AM-12:15 PM Eric Walters: Bear in the Family

12:15-12:45 PM Shenaaz Nanji: Alina in a Pinch

12:45-1:15 PM Alma Fullerton: Flipping Forward Twisting Backward

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Alma Fullerton: Flipping Forward Twisting Backward
Greer Stothers: Kaleidoscope of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: Their colors and patterns explained

Rachel Poliquin: The Strangest Thing in the Sea: And Other Curious Creatures of the Deep

1:00-2:00 PM

    Shenaaz Nanji: Alina in a Pinch
    Eric Walters: Bear in the Family
    Juliana Armstrong: This is What I’ve Been Told / Mii yi gaa-bi-wiindmaagooyaan

Kallie George (tentative): Crimson Twill: Witch in the City

SILVER BIRCH FICTION

AWARD CEREMONY 12:00-1:00 PM

WORKSHOPS

10:15-10:45 AM Colleen Nelson: The Undercover Book List

10:15-10:45 AM J. Torres and David Namisato: Stealing Home

10:30-11:00 AM Wesley King: Butt Sandwich & Tree

11:15-11:45 AM Catherine Egan: Sneaks

11:15-11:45 AM Meagan Mahoney: Meranda and the Legend of the Lake

1:15-1:45 PM David A. Robertson: The Stone Child (The Misewa Saga, Bk 3)

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

10:00-11:00 AM

Rosena Fung: Living with Viola
Meagan Mahoney: Meranda and the Legend of the Lake

Catherine Egan: Sneaks

David A. Robertson: The Stone Child (The Misewa Saga, Bk 3)

1:00-2:00 PM

Wesley King: Butt Sandwich & Tree

Colleen Nelson: The Undercover Book List
J. Torres and David Namisato: Stealing Home

BLUE SPRUCE

DIGITAL AWARD CEREMONY 1:30-2:00 PM EST

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2023

RED MAPLE

AWARD CEREMONY 10:30-11:30 AM

WORKSHOPS

11:45 AM-12:15 PM Teresa Toten: Eight Days

12:15-12:45 PM Meaghan McIsaac: The Bear House

12:15-12:45 PM Chad Lucas: Let the Monster Out

12:45-1:15 PM Kevin Sands: Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, Bk 1)

1:15-1:45 PM Paul Coccia and Eric Walters: On the Line

1:15-1:45 PM Lori Weber: The Ribbon Leaf

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Kevin Sands: Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, Bk 1)
Paul Coccia and Eric Walters: On the Line

Lori Weber: The Ribbon Leaf

Joanne Levy: Sorry for Your Loss

Kathy Kacer: Under the Iron Bridge

1:00-2:00 PM

Leisl Adams: Batter Royale
Meaghan McIsaac: The Bear House

Teresa Toten: Eight Days

Chad Lucas: Let the Monster Out

WHITE PINE

AWARD CEREMONY 12:00-1:00 PM

WORKSHOPS

10:15-10:45 AM Christy Goerzen: River Mermaid

10:15-10:45 AM H. N. Khan: Wrong Side of the Court

10:30-11:00 AM Kate McLaughlin: Daughter

11:15-11:45 AM Nicola Davison: Decoding Dot Grey

11:15-11:45 AM Jen Ferguson: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

1:00-2:00 PM
Kate McLaughlin: Daughter

Nicola Davison: Decoding Dot Grey

Christy Goerzen: River Mermaid

Jen Ferguson: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Louisa Onomé: Twice as Perfect

H. N. Khan: Wrong Side of the Court

YELLOW CEDAR

Digital Award Ceremony 1:30-2:00 PM EST

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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023

LE PRIX MÉLÈZE

AWARD CEREMONY 10:30-11:30 AM

WORKSHOPS

11:45 AM-12:15 PM Andrée-Anne Gratton: L'enfant qui jouait du piano dans sa tête

11:45 AM-12:15 PM Marie-Andrée Arsenault: La Guerre des pupitres

12:15-12:45 PM Patrick Blanchette: Aube du monde des rêves 01 Le réacteur onirique

12:15-12:45 PM Carole Tremblay: La chose dans l'étang

12:45-1:15 PM Jocelyn Boisvert: La ligue des (pas si) champions

12:45-1:15 PM Pierre Chastenay: Une visite guidée du système solaire

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Jocelyn Boisvert: La ligue des (pas si) champions
Pierre Chastenay: Une visite guidée du système solaire

1:00-2:00 PM

    Patrick Blanchette: Aube du monde des rêves 01 Le réacteur onirique
    Carole Tremblay: La chose dans l'étang
    Andrée-Anne Gratton: L'enfant qui jouait du piano dans sa tête
    Marie-Andrée Arsenault: La Guerre des pupitres

LE PRIX TAMARAC

AWARD CEREMONY 12:00-1:00 PM

WORKSHOPS

10:15-10:45 AM Annie Bacon: Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'un garçon perdu

10:15-10:45 AM Dïana Bélice: L'escouade du bonheur

10:30-11:00 AM Isabelle Roy: Brûlé 01 Premier degré

10:30-11:00 AM Marie-Hélène Jarry: Les carnets de novembre

11:15-11:45 AM Simon Lafrance: Carnet de bord d'un (aspirant) chef de meute

11:15-11:45 AM Alexandre Côté-Fournier: Quincaillerie Miville

1:15-1:45 PM Suzanne Aubry: Le Septième étage et demi

AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING

10:45-11:45 AM

    Isabelle Roy: Brûlé 01 Premier degré
    Marie-Hélène Jarry: Les carnets de novembre
    Suzanne Aubry: Le Septième étage et demi
    Paul Tom: Seuls
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay: La voix de la nature

1:00-2:00 PM

    Simon Lafrance: Carnet de bord d'un (aspirant) chef de meute
    Annie Bacon: Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'un garçon perdu
    Dïana Bélice: L'escouade du bonheur
    Alexandre Côté-Fournier: Quincaillerie Miville

LE PRIX PEUPLIER

Digital Award Ceremony: 1:30-2:00 PM EST

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Links to purchase tickets for these Festival of Trees (including General Admission tickets without award ceremonies but all other events) as well as those that are only available as Digital Ceremonies (Blue Spruce, Yellow Cedar and Le prix Peuplier) are available at https://forestofreading.com/festival/.

June 19, 2020

2020 Forest of Reading® winners announced

Everything has been a little different this year. Readers would normally be reading and voting in their schools for the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading's readers' choice award programs but this pandemic has certainly changed the way things are normally done. Rather than announcing the awards at the annual Festival of Trees, this year's award ceremonies were held online, hosted by CBC Books on Curio.ca, an educational streaming platform (normally subscription based). Fortunately, these ceremonies were posted for all to see. It was a wonderful way to experience the authors and illustrators up close and hear their words and witness the awarding of the readers' choice favourites.

Here are this year's winners for each reading program as announced at the Forest of Reading Festival Award Ceremonies streamed on Curio CBC. The ceremonies for the English-language books were held on June 16, 2020 and can be viewed at https://curio.ca/en/collection/forest-of-reading-2020-2822/ while the ceremonies for the French-language awards were held on June 18, 2020 and shown at https://curio.ca/fr/collection/la-foret-de-la-lecture-2020-2823/.

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Winner

That’s Not Hockey
Written by Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Félix Girard
Annick Press

Honour Books:

The Reptile Club
Written by Maureen Fergus
Illustrated by Elina Ellis
Kids Can Press

Sloth at the Zoom
Written by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Orbie
Kids Can Press

Winner

Megabat
Written by Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by Kass Reich
Tundra Books

Honour Books:

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Written by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
Henry Holt & Company

The Mushroom Fan Club
Written and illustrated by Elise Gravel
Drawn & Quarterly

Winner

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
Written by Julia Nobel
Sourcebooks

Honour Books:

Inkling
Written by Kenneth Oppel
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
HarperCollins Canada

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Written by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada

Winner

Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family

Written by Van Ho and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Pajama Press

Honour Books:

The Superpower Field Guide to Beavers
Written by Rachel Poliquin
Illustrated by Nicholas John Frith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
Written by Allison Matthews-David and Serah-Marie McMahon
Illustrated by Gillian Wilson
Owlkids Books

Winner

No Fixed Address

Written by Susin Nielsen

Tundra Books

Honour Books:

In the Key of Nira Ghani
Written by Natasha Deen
Running Kids Press

The Unteachables
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada

Winner

Sadie

Written by Courtney Summers

Wednesday Books

Honour Books:

All Our Broken Pieces
Written by L. D. Crichton
Disney-Hyperion

Crown of Feathers
Written by Nicki Pau Preto
Simon & Schuster

Winner/Lauréat

La corde à linge
Written and illustrated by Orbie
Less 400 coups

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

Tellement sauvage!
Written by Mireille Messier
Illustrated by France Cormier
Éditions D’eux

Ils ne veulent pas jouer avec moi!!!
Written by Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Lucile Danis Drouot
Dominique et compagnie

Winner/Lauréat

Aventurosaure 01: Le réveil de Rex
Written and illustrated by Julien Paré-Sorel
Presses Aventure

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

L’étrange fille au chat
Written by Rémy Simard
Illustrated by Julie Rocheleau
La courte échelle

Collé
Written and illustrated by Jean Lacombe
Soulières éditeur

Winner/Lauréat

Vingt-cinq moins un
Written by Geneviève Piché
Éditions Québec Amérique

Honour Books/Livres distingués:

Jules et Jim, frères d’armes
Written and illustrated by Jacques Goldstyn
Bayard Canada Livres

Les timbrés 01: Le navet spatial
Written and illustrated by Dom Pelletier
Éditions Scholastic

The full press release is available at the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading® website.

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Congratulations to everyone!

May 21, 2016

Forest of Reading 2016 winners announced this week!

The Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading's book awards have been an important part of my school library program and my personal volunteer experiences for many years, so I am always proud to post the results of this wonderful reading program.

It's impossible to congratulate all those who made this reading program and the Festival of Trees such a success but here are some of the amazing people who play important roles in its success:

• the readers;
• the selection committees who read so many books to choose the best for the shortlists;
• the steering committees that organize and put on the fabulous Festival of Trees;
• the OLA staff, with Meredith Tutching at the helm;
• the authors and illustrators who create the wonderful youngCanLit;
• the publishers who publish youngCanLit and promote it; and
• the winners and honourees in each reading program.

Here are this year's readers' choice winners for each reading program: