Friday 19 June 2020

2020 Forest of Reading® Winners and Honour Books announced


Everything has been a little different this year. Readers would normally be reading and voting in their schools for the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading's readers' choice award programs but this pandemic has certainly changed the way things are normally done. Rather than announcing the awards at the annual Festival of Trees, this year's award ceremonies were held online, hosted by CBC Books on Curio.ca, an educational streaming platform (normally subscription based). Fortunately, these ceremonies were posted for all to see. It was a wonderful way to experience the authors and illustrators up close and hear their words and witness the awarding of the readers' choice favourites.

Here are this year's winners for each reading program as announced at the Forest of Reading Festival Award Ceremonies streamed on Curio CBC. The ceremonies for the English-language books were held on June 16, 2020 and can be viewed at https://curio.ca/en/collection/forest-of-reading-2020-2822/ while the ceremonies for the French-language awards were held on June 18, 2020 and shown at https://curio.ca/fr/collection/la-foret-de-la-lecture-2020-2823/.


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Winner
That’s Not Hockey
Written by Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Félix Girard
Annick Press


Honour Books:
The Reptile Club
Written by Maureen Fergus
Illustrated by Elina Ellis
Kids Can Press


Sloth at the Zoom
Written by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Orbie
Kids Can Press









Winner
Megabat
Written by Anna Humphrey
Illustrated by Kass Reich
Tundra Books


Honour Books:
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Written by Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
Henry Holt & Company

The Mushroom Fan Club
Written and illustrated by Elise Gravel
Drawn & Quarterly











Winner
The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane
Written by Julia Nobel
Sourcebooks


Honour Books:
Inkling
Written by Kenneth Oppel
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
HarperCollins Canada

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Written by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada










Winner
Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girl Waits to be Reunited with Her Family
Written by Van Ho and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press


Honour Books:
The Superpower Field Guide to Beavers
Written by Rachel Poliquin
Illustrated by Nicholas John Frith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
Written by Allison Matthews-David and Serah-Marie McMahon
Illustrated by Gillian Wilson
Owlkids Books







Winner
No Fixed Address
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books


Honour Books:
In the Key of Nira Ghani
Written by Natasha Deen
Running Kids Press

The Unteachables
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada












Winner
Sadie
Written by Courtney Summers
Wednesday Books


Honour Books:
All Our Broken Pieces
Written by L. D. Crichton
Disney-Hyperion


Crown of Feathers
Written by Nicki Pau Preto
Simon & Schuster












Winner/Lauréat
La corde à linge
Written and illustrated by Orbie
Less 400 coups  


Honour Books/Livres distingués:
Tellement sauvage!
Written by Mireille Messier
Illustrated by France Cormier
Éditions D’eux

Ils ne veulent pas jouer avec moi!!!
Written by Andrée Poulin
Illustrated by Lucile Danis Drouot
Dominique et compagnie










Winner/Lauréat
Aventurosaure 01: Le réveil de Rex
Written and illustrated by Julien Paré-Sorel
Presses Aventure 


Honour Books/Livres distingués:
L’étrange fille au chat
Written by Rémy Simard
Illustrated by Julie Rocheleau
La courte échelle

Collé
Written and illustrated by Jean Lacombe
Soulières éditeur 











Winner/Lauréat
Vingt-cinq moins un
Written by Geneviève Piché   
Éditions Québec Amérique 


Honour Books/Livres distingués:
Jules et Jim, frères d’armes
Written and illustrated by Jacques Goldstyn
Bayard Canada Livres

Les timbrés 01: Le navet spatial
Written and illustrated by Dom Pelletier
Éditions Scholastic
 





The full press release is available at the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading® website.

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Congratulations to everyone!


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