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Harbourfront Reading Festival: The Forest of Trees

Come celebrate with us at the 2014 Toronto Festival of Trees and see why 8,000 young people join us every year!
White Pine™ Award Ceremony: 10:00am on May 14th at the Harbourfont Centre

There are over 80 Authors and Illustrators attending the Festival this year including eleven White Pine authors:

  • Lisa Harrington – Live to Tell
  • Jill MacLean – Nix Minus One
  • David A. Poulsen – Old Man
  • Don Aker – Running On Empty
  • Colleen Nelson – The Fall
  • Courtney Summers – This Is Not A Test
  • Marion Fargey Brooker – Hold the Oxo!: A Teenage Solider Writes Home
  • Cindy Babyn – moving Out!: A Young Adult’s Guide to Living on Your Own
  • Laura Scandiffio – People Who Said No: Courage Against Oppression
  • Cynthia J. Faryon – Real Justice
  • Liedewy Hawke – The Secret of the Blue Trunk

Readers have the opportunity to meet their favourite authors and to participate in creative workshops put on by the authors themselves. There will be lots of entertainment, games and prizes to be won.

Permission forms will be available from Ms. Wray, in the Library, on Monday April 28th.