The Ontario Library Association gave out their 2011 Forest of Reading Awards:

Blue Spruce Award (Grades K-2)

My Think-A-Ma-Jink by Dave Whamond

 

Silver Bird Express Award (Grades 3-4)

Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires

 

Silver Birch Fiction Award (Grades 4-6)

Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders by Kevin Sylvester

 

Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award (Grades 4-6)

How to Build Your Own Country by Valerie Wyatt and Fred Rix

 

Red Maple Fiction Award (Grades 7-8)

Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant

 

Red Maple Non-Fiction Award (Grades 7-8)

The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland

 

White Pine Award (Grades 9-12)

The Monkeyface Chronicles by Richard Scarsbrook

 

Le Prix Tamarack (Grades 4-6, French-language)

 La Quête du dernier dodo: Les Adventures de Cosmo le Dodo by Patrice Racine

 

Le Prix Tamarack Express (Grades 4-6, French-language)

Les Dragouilles 2 – Les Bleues de Montréal by Maxim Cyr and Karine Gottot

Anyone read any of them?  I really enjoyed Binky the Space Cat, but haven’t read any of the others.  And the Les Dragouilles 2 looks very appealing, but I’d have to have it in English.