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HERE’S A LIST OF BOOKS FROM THE ONTARIO LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL LITERACY AWARDS:

THE FESTIVAL OF TREES.

Blue Spruce Award (Kindergarten–Grade 2):
Jeremy Tankard, Boo Hoo Bird (Scholastic Canada Ltd.)

Silver Birch Express (Grade 3–4):
Cyndi Sand-Eveland, Dear Toni (Tundra Books)

Silver Birch Fiction (Grade 4–6):
Robert Paul Weston, Zorgamazoo (Penguin Group Canada)

Silver Birch Non-fiction (Grade 4–6):
Larry Verstraete, At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times (Scholastic Canada Ltd.)

Red Maple Award (Grade 7–8):
Susin Nielsen, Word Nerd (Tundra Books)

White Pine Award (Grade 9–12):
Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press)

Le Prix Tamarack (French Language Initiative Program):
Sylviane Thibault, Haut les pattes, Twister! (Pierre Tisseyre)

Honour Books – the following books were runner-up winners in each of the following categories:

Blue Spruce
Honour Book #1 – Crocodiles Play! by Robert Heidbreder illustrated by Rae Maté
(Tradewind Books)
Honour Book #2 – The King’s Taster by Kenneth Oppel paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (HarperCollinsCanada)

Red Maple
Honour Book #1 – Night Runner by Max Turner (HarperCollinsCanada)
Honour Book #2 – Leaving Fletchville by René Schmidt (Orca Book Publishers)

White Pine
Honour Book #1 – Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka (Orca Book Publishers)
Honour Book #2 – Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston (HarperCollinsCanada)

Silver Birch Express
Honour Book #1 – A Bear in War by Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat. Illustrated by Brian Deines (Key Porter Books)
Honour Book #2 – Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit by Cary Fagan
(Tundra Books)

Silver Birch Fiction
Honour Book #1 – Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Honour Book #2 – The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)

Silver Birch Non-Fiction
Honour Book #1 – You are weird: Your body’s peculiar parts and funny functions by Diane Swanson Illustrated by Kathy Boake (Kids Can Press)
Honour Book #2 – Inside Hockey! The Legends, Facts and Feats that Made the Game by Keltie Thomas Illustrated by John Kicksee
(Owl Kids Books)

Le Prix Tamarack (French Language Initiative Program):
Honour Book #1 – Le vrai de vrai journal de ma vie by Gilles Tibo (Imagine)
Honour Book #2 – Kila et le gerfaut blesse by Louise Simard (Trécarré)

More than 250,000 kids from across the province voted in 7 categories to award these prizes.

Congratulations to the winners and now, if you will excuse me, I have to go read a book!