The winners of the 2009 Forest of Reading Awards were announced at an event held at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre on May 13 and 14. The winner and honour books are listed below.
Blue Spruce Award
Kindergarten to Grade 2
WINNER
Chester
Written and illustrated by Mélanie Watt
Kids Can Press
HONOUR BOOKS
Such a Prince
Written by Dan Bar-el
Illustrated by John Manders
Clarion Books
Stanley at Sea
Written by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Kids Can Press
Silver Birch Award
Express, Grades 3 to 4, Fiction/Non-Fiction, Grades 4 to 6
WINNER
Express
Dear Sylvia
Written by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books
Fiction
The Third Eye
Written by Mahtab Narsimhan
Dundurn Press
Non-Fiction
Gold Medal for Weird
Written by Kevin Sylvester
Kids Can Press
HONOUR BOOKS
Express
Feather Brain
Written by Maureen Bush
Orca Book Publishers
Boy in Motion: Rick Hansen’s Story
Written by Ainslie Manson
Illustrated by Renné Benoit
Greystone Books
Fiction
Swindle
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case
Written by Shane Peacock
Tundra Books
Non-Fiction
Everything But the Kitchen Sink: Weird Stuff You Didn’t Know About Food
Written by Frieda Wishinsky and Elizabeth MacLeod
Scholastic Canada
Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many
Written by Ann Alma
Groundwood Books
Red Maple Award
Grades 7 to 8
WINNER
Fiction
Out of the Cold
Written by Norah McClintock
Scholastic Canada
Non-Fiction
Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of the Ten Sovereigns
Written by Elizabeth MacLeod
Annick Press
HONOUR BOOKS
Fiction
Egghead
Written by Caroline Pignat
Red Deer Press
Frost
Written by Nicole Luiken
Great Plains Publications
Non-Fiction
SOS: Stories of Survival
Written by Ed Butts
Tundra Books
Fire on the Water
Written by Wendy Lewis
James Lorimer & Company
White Pine Award
Grades 9 to 12
WINNER
Little Brother
Written by Cory Doctorow
Tor Books
HONOUR BOOKS
After River
Written by Donna Milner
HarperCollins Canada
Gravity Journal
Written by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Great Plains Publications
For more information, please contact:
Amanda Scriver, OLA Program Coordinator
Tel: 416 899-4935
abraun@accessola.com