Kids get their say at Forest of Reading book festival in Ontario
In a typical year at the Forest of Reading, Canada’s largest K-12 reading festival, some 15,000 children flock to the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto to vote on – and meet – the authors they love best, in an event that turns writers into “rock stars” for three days each May. Committees read dozens if not hundreds of books over the summer and whittle the list down to the festival nominees. After returning to school in the fall, more than 270,000 students will spend the year reading them before they vote in the spring. The event culminates in Toronto – with satellite events held thro...
Source: csmonitor.com