Our Forest of Reading Winners 2009!

The official Forest of Reading Winners have been announced!  Check out the winners on our page called Forest of Reading 2009 just on the right side of this site.

The Forest of Reading program had an official voting day, which was April 23rd.  Our library participated in the vote and all of the readers who were eligible to vote stopped by that evening to vote, eat some cake and win some great prizes.  We had a little trouble picking a winner in one category, so we decided on a tie, but otherwise, our group picked their favourites.  Here were the winners in our local vote:

Our readers chose Dear Sylvia in the Silver Birch Express category and Newton and the Time Machine for Silver Birch Fiction.  There was a tie in Silver Birch Non-Fiction between Birds of Prey and Gold Medal for Weird. And finishing up in the Red Maple Fiction category, we had Frost as the winner and Royal Murder in the Red Maple Non-Fiction spot.

We’ve sent off our votes to Toronto and we’ll post the final winners on the blog as soon as they are announced. Thanks to everyone who participated this year.  It was lots of fun!

Forest of Reading winners announced….Update!

Here’s a quick rundown of the winners that were announced yesterday and today in Toronto for the Forest of Reading Program:

Red Maple : SAFE AS HOUSES by Eric Walters

Blue Spruce : SCAREDY SQUIRREL MAKES A FRIEND, by Melanie Watt

And for White Pine : KETURAH & LORD DEATH by Martine Leavitt

In Silver Birch Express, the winner was:

Things are Looking Grimm, Jill by Dan Bar-el

In Silver Birch Fiction, the winner is:

The Secret of Grim Hill by Linda DeMeulemeester

and in non-fiction, the winner is:

Secret Agent Y.O.U, by Helaine Becker

Congratulations to all the winners!

Winners!

Last night, we had our vote for the Forest of Reading program at the Carleton Place Public Library. What a great turnout, too! We voted, then enjoyed a party with cake and drinks and prizes for the readers that finished all of the books in their category……

Janet and Glenwyn manning the polls! These ladies worked hard!

Our Red Maple & Silver Birch cake!

Thanks to everyone who came out to vote, and to all of those young readers who participated this year! It was a great success and we can’t wait until next year to do it all over again! Check back later to see who we picked as the winners………………………….

Advanced Poll!

Well, its almost here! The Forest of Reading program is only 9 days away from finishing for another year. So, for those of you who are eligible to vote (you’ve read AT LEAST 5 in your category), we are having an advance poll here at the Carleton Place Library tomorrow, Tuesday,April 15th from 4 – 8:30pm. So, if you can’t make it next week, stop by tomorrow and get your vote counted!

For everyone else, the vote happens on Wednesday, April 23rd from 7 – 8 pm. See you there!