The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Forest of Reading® 2010 Festival of Trees™ Winners Blue Spruce Award™ (Kindergarten-Grade 2): Jeremy Tankard, Boo Hoo Bird (Scholastic Canada Ltd.) Silver Birch Express® (Grade 3-4): Cyndi Sand-Eveland, Dear Toni (Tundra Books) Silver Birch Fiction® (Grade 4-6): Robert Paul Weston, Zorgamazoo (Penguin Group Canada) Silver Birch Non-fiction® (Grade 4-6): Larry Verstraete, At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times (Scholastic Canada Ltd.) Red Maple Award™ (Grade 7-8): Susin Nielsen, Word Nerd (Tundra Books) White Pine Award™ (Grade 9-12): Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press) Le Prix Tamarack™ (French Language Initiative Program): Sylviane Thibault, Haut les pattes, Twister! (Pierre Tisseyre) Honour Books - the following books were runner-up winners in each of the following categories: Blue Spruce Honour Book #1 - Crocodiles Play! by Robert Heidbreder illustrated by Rae Maté (Tradewind Books) Honour Book #2 - The King's Taster by Kenneth Oppel paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (HarperCollinsCanada) Red Maple Honour Book #1 - Night Runner by Max Turner (HarperCollinsCanada) Honour Book #2 - Leaving Fletchville by René Schmidt (Orca Book Publishers) White Pine Honour Book #1 - Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka (Orca Book Publishers) Honour Book #2 - Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston (HarperCollinsCanada) Silver Birch Express Honour Book #1 - A Bear in War by Stephanie Innes and Harry Endrulat. Illustrated by Brian Deines (Key Porter Books) Honour Book #2 - Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit by Cary Fagan (Tundra Books) Silver Birch Fiction Honour Book #1 - Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) Honour Book #2 - The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLean (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book #1 - You Are Weird: Your body's peculiar parts and funny functions by Diane Swanson Illustrated by Kathy Boake (Kids Can Press) Honour Book #2 - Inside Hockey! The Legends, Facts and Feats that Made the Game by Keltie Thomas Illustrated by John Kicksee (Owl Kids Books) Le Prix Tamarack (French Language Initiative Program): Honour Book #1 - Le vrai de vrai journal de ma vie by Gilles Tibo (Imagine) Honour Book #2 - Kila et le gerfaut blesse by Louise Simard (Trécarré) 1 7 8 All Photos By Brian Pudden, OLA 28 Ontario School Library Association