...a print-rich environment leads to more reading and free voluntary reading is the best predictor of comprehension, vocabulary growth, spelling and grammatical ability and writing style (Michele Lonsdale, Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: A Review of the Research: Report for the Australian School Libraries Association, 2003)
In a series of three posts, I'll list the nominees for the following programs that were announced today:
- Blue Spruce™: K to Grade 2 reading level
- Silver Birch® Express: Grades 3-4 reading level
- Silver Birch® Fiction: Grades 5-6 reading level
- Silver Birch® Non-fiction: Grades 5-6 reading level
- Red Maple™ Fiction: Grades 7-8 reading level
- Red Maple™ Non-fiction: Grade 7-8 reading level
- White Pine™ Fiction: Grades 9-12 reading level
- Golden Oak™: Adult learners
- Le Prix Tamarac: les titres en français
- Le Prix Tamarac Express: les titres en français
- Le Prix Peuplier: les albums français
The Busy Beaver
by Nicholas Oldland
Kids Can Press
Don't Laugh at Giraffe
by Rebecca Bender
Pajama Press
Ella May and the Wishing Stone
by Cary Fagan
lllustrated by Geneviève Côté
Tundra Books
Here Comes Hortense!
by Heather Hartt-Sussman
Illustrated by Georgia Graham
Tundra Books
JoJo the Giant
by Jane Barclay
Illustrated by Esperança Melo
Tundra Books
Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story
by Martin Springett
Illustrated by Isobel Springett
Puffin Canada/Pengiun Group
Larf
by Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press
Really and Truly
by Émilie Rivard
Illustrated byAnne-Claire Delisle
OwlKids Books
Splinters
by Kevin Sylvester
Tundra Books
You Are Stardust
by Elin Kelsey
Illustrated by Soyeon Kim
OwlKids Books
Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus
by Mike Deas
Orca
I Owe You One by Natalie Hyde
Orca
Margaret and the Moth Tree
by Brit Trogen & Kari Trogen
Kids Can Press
The Matatu
by Eric Walters
Illustrated by Eva Campbell
Orca
The Paper House
by Lois Peterson
Orca
Loon
by Susan Vande Griek
Illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World's Greatest Escape Artist
by Janice Weaver
Illustrated by Chris Lane
Abrams Books for Young Readers/ABRAMS
Who Needs a Swamp?
by Karen Patkau
Tundra Books
In The Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up
by Monica Kulling
Illustrated by David Parkins
Tundra Books
Ankylosaur Attack: Tales of Prehistoric Life
by Daniel Loxton
Illustrated by Daniel Loxton and Jim W.W. Smith
Inhabit Media Inc.
Cat Found
by Ingrid Lee
Chicken House/Scholastic
The Dead Kid Detective Agency
by Evan Munday
ECW Press
Dragon Seer's Gift
by Janet McNaughton
HarperCollin
The Grave Robber's Apprentice
by Allan Stratton
HarperCollins
Making Bombs For Hitler
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Scholastic Canada
The Mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Wendy Lamb Books/Random House
Missing
by Becky Citra
Orca
Neil Flambé and the Crusader's Curse
by Kevin Sylvester
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
Sinking Deeper Or My Heroic Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
by Steve Vernon
Nimbus
A Tinfoil Sky
by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Tundra Books
50 Underwear Questions: A Bare-All History
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Illustrated by Ross Kinnaird
Annick Press
Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
by Larry Verstraete
Scholastic Canada
Duped! True Stories of the World's Best Swindlers
by Andreas Schroeder
Illustrated by Rémy Simard
Annick Press
Earth-Friendly Buildings, Bridges and More: The Eco-Journal of Corry Lapont
by Etta Kaner
Illustrated by Stephen MacEachern
Kids Can Press
Explorers Who Made It … or Died Trying
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Bill Dickson
Scholastic Canada
No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs
by Rob Laidlaw
Pajama Press
Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar
by Wendy Kitts
Nimbus
The Shadows that Rush Past: A Collection of Frightening Inuit Folktales
by Rachel A. Qitsualik
Illustrated by Emily Fiegenschuh and Larry MacDougall
Inhabit Media Inc.
Shannen and the Dream for a School
by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis
by Kathy Kacer
Second Story Press
Remaining nominees are listed here:
Le Prix Tamarac and Le Prix Peuplier
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