It’s a mere four-day countdown to Canada’s largest kids’ book awards (I’m one of 10 authors nominated for the Red Maple Award), and this year anyone can watch the Forest of Reading Festival awards online on Tuesday, June 16: curio.ca/forestoforeading
Big kudos to the organizers who did the hard work of converting this to a virtual ceremony, and to my fellow nominees, and to the students! I’ll be appearing briefly by pre-recorded video.
More than 270,000 young readers participate (read and vote through their schools or public libraries), and traditionally more than 12,000 people attend the festival just in Toronto. (I was there last year, with my novel Tracker’s Canyon.)
June 16 Schedule for English Awards
9 am EST: Blue Spruce Award
10 am EST: Silver Birch Express Award
11 am EST: Silver Birch Award
12 pm EST: Yellow Cedar Award
1 pm EST: Red Maple Award (my novel Stowaway is nominated)
2 pm EST: White Pine Award
The Forest of Reading Festival is Canada’s largest literary event for young readers. It culminates in a two-day awards celebration. This initiative offers ten reading programs for all ages, and each program consists of popular Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles. It is a Canada-wide program that was launched by the Ontario Library Association, but it is intended for readers across the country and those in Canadian international schools. The Forest occupies a major place of prominence in Canada’s literary landscape and encourages a love of reading in people of all ages.
View the Forest of Reading nominated lists.
Visit the Forest of Reading website for more information.
Again, the link to view the awards ceremony unfolding:
https://curio.ca/en/collection/the-forest-of-reading-2020-2822/
