See the winner announcements on Day Two of the 2022 Forest of Reading Festival
Watch the winner videos in the Yellow Cedar, Silver Birch and Silver Birch Express award categories now!
CBC Books is presenting the 2022 Forest of Reading Award ceremonies on May 17, 18 and 19, 2022.
Hosted each spring, the Forest of Reading is Canada's largest annual recreational reading program where children and young adults pick their favourite authors and illustrators.
Each spring, the Forest of Reading curates a wide selection of Canadian titles for school-aged children. Forest of Reading has nine awards selected by Canadian students, divided by age group and reading level. Each award has 10 nominated titles and students across Canada vote on their favourite to determine the winner.
More than 270,000 students across Canada participate each year through their schools, public libraries, literacy centres and at home. Those with a subscription can tune in through Curio, CBC's educational service. The awards will also be available at CBC Books.
On Day Two of the festival (May 18, 2022), the Yellow Cedar Award (10 a.m. ET), Silver Birch Fiction Award (11:30 a.m. ET) and the Silver Birch Express Award (1:00 p.m ET) are announced. You can see the complete schedule here.
Yellow Cedar Award
The Yellow Cedar Award is for nonfiction for readers in Grades 4-8.
The 2022 nominees are:
- 111 Trees by Rina Singh, illustrated by Marianne Ferrer
- Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats by Cylita Guy, illustrated by Cornelia Li
- Finding Home by Jen Sookfong Lee, illustrated by Drew Shannon
- In the Dark by Lisa Deresti Betik, illustrated by Josh Holinaty
- The International Day of the Girl by Jessica Dee Humphreys & Rona Ambrose, illustrated by Simone Shin
- It Takes Guts by Dr. Jennifer Gardy, illustrated by Belle Wuthrich
- Mad for Ads by Erica Fyvie, illustrated by Ian Turner
- The Power of Style by Christian Allaire
- This is Your Brain on Stereotypes by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Drew Shannon
- Wild Outside by Les Stroud, illustrated by Andrew P. Barr
The 2021 winner was Too Young to Escape by Van Ho & Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
Silver Birch Fiction Award
The Silver Birch Fiction Award is for fiction for readers from Grades 3-6.
The 2022 nominees are:
- Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster by Rachelle Delaney
- Deadman's Castle by Iain Lawrence
- Elvis, Me and the Lemonade Stand Summer by Leslie Gentile
- The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Kevin Sylvester & Basil Sylvester
- The Great Bear by David A. Robertson
- Harvey Holds His Own by Colleen Nelson, illustrated by Tara Anderson
- The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett
- No Vacancy by Tziporah Cohen
- ParaNorthern and the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse by Stephanie Cooke, illustrated by Mari Costa
- Peter Lee's Notes from the Field by Angela Ahn, illustrated by Julie Kwon
The 2021 winner was The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel.
Silver Birch Express Award
The Silver Birch Express Award is for fiction or nonfiction for readers in Grades 3-4.
The 2022 nominees are:
- Duck Days by Sara Leach, illustrated by Rebecca Bender
- Hockey Night in Kenya by Danson Mutinda & Eric Walters, illustrated by Claudia Dávila
- How I Survived: Four Nights on the Ice by Serapio Ittusardjuat, llustrated by Matthew K. Hoddy
- Mellybean and the Giant Monster by Mike White
- Race With Me! by Andre De Grasse & Robert Budd, illustrated by Joseph Osei Bonsu
- Raymond the Buffalo by Lou Beauchesne, translated by Susan Ouriou & Christelle Morelli, illustrated by Kate Chappell
- Snooze-O-Rama by Maria Birmingham, illustrated by Kyle Reed
- That's No Dino!: Or Is It? by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Marie-Ève Tremblay
- Walking For Water by Susan Hughes, illustrated by Nicole Miles
- Wednesday Wilson Gets Down to Business by Bree Galbraith, illustrated by Morgan Goble
The 2021 winner was Megabat by Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Kass Reich.
