Okay, okay… maybe “dominated” is too strong a word. But we’re super proud of our publishers!
The Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading festival this week at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre
saw more than 8,000 kids brave the rainy weather to cheer on their Forest picks, and not surprisingly,
a few of our kick-ass publishers came out on top!
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Blue Spruce Award
Dave Whamond, Oddrey (Owlkids Books)
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Silver Birch Express Award
Rebecca Upjohn; Renné Benoit, illus., The Secret of the Village Fool (Second Story Press)
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Silver Birch Fiction Award
Robin Stevenson, Record Breaker (Orca Book Publishers)
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White Pine Fiction Award
Lisa Harrington, Live to Tell (Dancing Cat Books)
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White Pine Non-fiction Award
Lise Dion; Liedewij Hawke, trans., The Secret of the Blue Trunk (Dundurn Press)
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And, of course, congrats to the other publishers as well!
Silver Birch Non-fiction Award
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way (Pajama Press)
Red Maple Fiction Award
Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (Tundra Books)
Lauréat du Prix Tamarac
Maryse Peyskens, Une fille à l’école des gars (Dominique et Compagnie)
Lauréat du Prix Tamarac Express
Raymond Parent, Attention, j’arrive! (Boomerang)
Lauréat du Prix Peuplier
Céline Malépart, Une mouche, un chat et une patate (Boomerang)
– Vanessa
