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The Teaching Librarian 24.1 39 Readers cheer on the nominees at the Prix Peuplier Award Ceremony on May 19 at the French Festival of Trees. Gordon Korman takes a photo with a couple avid fans. Korman won the Silver Birch Fiction Award® Winner for his book, Masterminds. Le Prix Peuplier Nominee Joannie Beaudet shows a reader her puppet from her book, La potion magique (Série : L'ile de Cosmo le dodo). Readers receive their free book prize after winning a ticket from one of the games at the Toronto Festival of Trees. Jeyn Roberts wins` the 2016 White Pine Award™ for her young adult novel, The Bodies We Wear. Rhéa Dufresne wins the 2016 Prix Tamarac for her French language novel, Un clic de trop. Joel A. Sutherland wins the 2016 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award® for his book, Haunted Canada 5: Terrifying True Stories. This year's Forest of Reading®'s celebration, Festival of Trees™, took place in May and was one of the biggest ones to date. More than 10,000 readers, chaperones, teachers, teacher-librarians, library staff, parents, authors, publishers, and other guests attended Festivals in London, Toronto, and Sault Ste. Marie. This year was particularly special with the addition of a third Festival day in Toronto, completely dedicated to the French language programs of the Forest of Reading.