On Tuesday, the Ontario Library Association announced its 2020 (that's nominated in 2019 but awarded in 2020)
nominated titles for the Forest of Reading book award programs. It's always an exciting time of year for readers and authors and illustrators and publishers and teachers and librarians...but this year the announcement will be even more special as a new look for the Forest of Reading is implemented. It's clean and fresh and heralds a new season of reading with a new award, Yellow Cedar. With ninety titles nominated, I've broken them down into three posts on
CanLit for LittleCanadians Awards page or you can visit the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading page at
http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Forest_of_Reading/Nominated_Lists/OLA/Forest_of_Reading/Current_Program_Year.aspx
Blue Spruce Award™
(JK-Grade 2, picture books)
Current nominees posted here
Silver Birch Express Award®
(Grades 3-4, fiction, non-fiction)
Current nominees posted here
Silver Birch Fiction Award®
(Grades 3-6, fiction)
Current nominees posted here
Yellow Cedar Award (New!)
(Grades 4-8, non-fiction every year)
Current nominees posted here
Red Maple Award™
(Grades 7-8, fiction every year)
Current nominees posted here
White Pine Award™
(Grades 9-12, fiction)
Current nominees posted here
Le prix Peuplier
(picture books, less text, simpler subject matters, perfect for read alouds)
Current nominees posted here
Le prix Mélèze (formerly Le prix Tamarac Express)
(shorter chapter books maximum 100 pages or more mature picture books, larger text with pictures, simpler vocabulary and verb tenses)
Current nominees posted here
Le prix Tamarac
(chapter books from 100 to 250 pages, smaller text with little or no illustrations, more complicated verb tenses and vocabulary)
Current nominees posted here
Let the Forest begin!
