Forest of Reading 2018 Winners!

May28

Our school held our Blue Spruce 2018 Celebration and voted for Shark Lady in 1st place.   We are thrilled to announce Shark Lady won Blue Spruce 2018!  Honour books were Great and The Boy  Who Lived Down the Drain.

The Red Maple 2018 winner was The Winnowing!

To find out more about the Forest of Reading Program, go to: Forest of Reading

 

Forest of Reading 2017 has begun!

January25

Blue Spruce for Grades 1 to 3 has started with Shane Peacock’s The Artist and Me.

Red Maple for Grades 7 and 8 students who have joined the Red Maple Team started just before Christmas and the students are now meeting with Staff Passport Advisors to discuss their books.  Silver Birch readers will be beginning their novels soon in Ms. Cubitt’s Grade 5/6 class.  To see the complete list of nominated books and find out more about the Forest of Reading go to:

Forest of Reading 2017

To see some great YouTube clips and/or Twitter feeds or other information on the nominated books please go to the Oakley Park Library blogspot where Mrs. Telford has listed the books. Enjoy!

YouTube Clips Forest of Reading 2017

Forest of Reading 2014 Winners!

May29

The final results are in for the winners and finalists in the Forest of Reading 2014 Program.  For more information, please go to:  Ontario Library Association

Keep on scrolling down to see pictures from our visit to Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre for the Official Red Maple and Blue Spruce Celebration on May 14, 2014

 

  FOREST OF READING®    

 

2014 FOREST OF READING®
AWARD WINNERS
Download Complete List of Winners & Honour Books (pdf)

  Oddrey
Dave Whamond
 
EXPRESS
The Secret of the Village Fool

Rebecca Upjohn, Renné Benoit 

 
FICTION
Record Breaker

Robin Stevenson
NON FICTION
One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Susin Nielsen
FICTION
Live To Tell
Lisa Harrington
 
NON FICTION
The Secret of the Blue Trunk
Lise Dion, Liedewij Hawke
Lauréat du Prix Tamarac 
Une fille à l’école des gars
Maryse Peyskens
Lauréat du Prix Tamarac Express
Attention, j’arrive ! (BiBop)
Raymond Parent
Une mouche, un chat et une patate
Céline Malépart

 

 scout Susin Nielsen - Red Maple Winner 

Susin Nielsen Winning for The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

 

Forest of Reading 2014

March17

Forest of Reading

Our Red Maple, Silver Birch, Silver Birch Express and Blue Spruce readers are well into their Forest of Reading Programs now.   The official Voting date is April 23, 2014.  

 Our Red Maple Team will be travelling to Toronto’s Harbourfront for the Red Maple 2014 Celebration this year.  They will have a chance to meet all TEN of their authors and also register in their workshops on May 14th.   An exciting time for our team.  Festival of Treees Link

The Silver Birch and Silver Birch Express teams will be celebrating at the Essa Library with our favourite public librarian, Ms. Holly Elliott.  We will be doing some fun activities and have chances to win some great prizes too!

Fantastic news for our Blue Spruce Readers (all Grades 1 to 3)!  The Essa Library will be showcasing the original illustrations from many of our Blue Spruce 2014 books!  Many of our classes will be travelling to the Essa Library to see them in person. More information to follow!

To see all of the Nominated books please go to:

Forest of Reading 2014

Forest of Reading

 



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