Category Archives: Forest of Reading
Seeing the Forest of Reading for the Trees
I’ve been seeing a lot of Ontario, friends! My second book in the Dead Kid Detective Agency series, Dial M for Morna, has been nominated for the Silver Birch Fiction Award, part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading Awards. The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest reading program, with awards geared toward readers [...]
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Tagged forest of reading, ontario library association, silver birch
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Festival of Trees Recap
On Wednesday, May 15, and Thursday, May 16, the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading‘s Festival of Trees dropped down at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and over two days, thousands of kids from all over the Greater Toronto Area (and even as far as Orillia!) came to cheer on their favourite books on the Forest of [...]
Traversing the (Near) North
Last week, as part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading tour – think of a U.S.O. tour, but with children’s authors and only within Ontario – I travelled to Parry Sound and North Bay with a team of great writers (and one excellent OLA staff member, Meredith). The experience was both surreal and [...]
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Tagged bill swan, bobby orr, brit trogen, dionne quintuplets, forest of reading, janet wilson, kari trogen, marsha skrypuch, natalie hyde, north bay, ontario library association, parry sound, ringette, steve pitt, wesley king
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