2025 FOREST OF READING - DIGITAL PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
FOREST FRIDAYS – Author visits with Award Nominees
Silver Birch Express, Silver Birch Fiction and Red Maple Nominees will participate in Author and Panel workshops that will be released on the following dates:
| FOREST FRIDAY’S | BOOK | Program | Release Date | Release Time (Eastern Time) | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Heather Smith | Tig | Red Maple | 1/10/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Kristy Jackson | Mortified | Silver Birch Fiction | 1/10/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Marty Chan | Dragon on the Loose | Silver Birch Express | 1/10/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Giselle Vriesen | Why We Play With Fire | Red Maple | 1/17/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Shari Green | Game Face | Silver Birch Fiction | 1/17/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Sita MacMillan | Sarah Ponakey and Ahasiw’s Forest Powwow | Silver Birch Express | 1/17/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Deborah Kerbel | Iggy Included | Silver Birch Fiction | 1/24/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Uma Krishnaswami | Birds on the Brain | Silver Birch Express | 1/24/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Wali Shah & Eric Walters | Call Me Al | Red Maple | 1/24/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| A.Y. Chan | The Legendary Mo Seto | Silver Birch Fiction | 1/31/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Brian Slattery | Escape to Ponti | Red Maple | 1/31/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Maria Birmingham | Odd Couples: A Guide to Unlikely Animal Pairs | Silver Birch Express | 1/31/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Candace Savage | Always Beginning: the Big Bang, the universe and you | Silver Birch Express | 2/7/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Ronnie Riley | Asking for a Friend | Silver Birch Fiction | 2/7/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Wanda John-Kehewin | Hopeless in Hope | Red Maple | 2/7/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Christina Kilbourne | 40 Days in Hicksville | Red Maple | 2/21/2025 | 10:00:00 AM |
| SPECIAL EVENTS | BOOK NAME | Program | Release Date | Release Time | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Freedom To Read Special Event | David A. Robertson – The Kodiaks: Home Ice Advantage | Silver Birch Fiction | 2/25/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Red Maple Special Event | Author and Editor, Jael Richardson along with fellow nominees, Marty Chan, Chad Lucas, Rosena Fung from Red Maple Nominee, Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging | Red Maple | 3/4/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Sutherland vs. Szpirglas: Scary Showdown (Special Event) | Red Maple Nominee Jeff Szpirglas, author of Book of Screams and Yellow Cedar Nominee, Joel Sutherland, author of Haunted Canada Graphic Novel 01: Four Terrifying Tales | Yellow Cedar & Red Maple | 3/6/2025 | 10:00:00 AM |
Illustrator Events with our Forest Illustrators – February, 2025
Come draw with our very own Forest of Reading Illustrators! We are excited to bring you two sessions on how to draw your favourite characters. Be sure to have your readers tune in with pencil and paper and have some fun with our amazing nominees! These presentations will be at 1:00pm Eastern Time
| ILLUSTRATOR EVENTS | BOOK | Program | Release Date | Release Time (Eastern Time) | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Anoosha Syed | Lost Stick | Blue Spruce | 2/3/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Mei Yu | Lost & Found: Based on a True Story | Silver Birch Express | 2/4/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Roz MacLean | More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean | Blue Spruce | 2/5/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Mathias Ball | Still My Tessa | Blue Spruce | 2/6/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Flo Leung | The Blue Bowl | Blue Spruce | 2/7/2025 | 12:00:00 PM |
Mercre-LIT: Digital Author Visits – February – March, 2025
French nominees for Le prix Mélèze and Tamarac will be hosting author visits on the following dates:
| MERCRE-LIT | LIVRE | PROGRAMME | DATE DE SORTIE | HEURE DE PUBLICATION (Heure de l’Est) | LIEN POUR SE CONNECTER |
| Stéphanie Boyer | La louve et l’enfant | Mélèze | 2/19/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Andrée Poulin | Semer des soleils | Tamarac | 2/26/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Catherin | Encore une histoire de pets | Mélèze | 3/5/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| bientôt disponible | bientôt disponible | Mélèze | 3/19/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Audrée Archambault | Lili-Jade 01 Pro des animaux | Tamarac | 3/26/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | |
| Diya Lim – presented in Partnership with Canadian Parents for French | Éli Labaki et les gouttes de pluie | Peuplier | 3/26/2025 | 12:00:00 PM | Register HERE for the LIVE session on Mar. 19th at 6pm (ET). Recording will be posted on Mar. 26 |
White Pine Wednesdays: Author visits & Panel Discussions – March – April, 2025
Our White Pine readers will get up close and personal with the authors of the White Pine Award learning about their craft, their nominated books and how they ended up where they are now. NOTE: These sessions are pre-recorded due to all schools/libraries having different schedules. You can watch at any time until June 30th that works best for you.
SCHEDULE WILL BE RELEASED DECEMBER 15th
| WHITE PINE EVENT | Program | Release Date | Release Time (Eastern Time) | LINK TO CONNECT |
| White Pine Event #1 | White Pine | TBD | 11:30:00 AM | |
| White Pine Event #2 | White Pine | TBD | 11:30:00 AM |
| READ ALOUD BY AUTHOR | BOOK | Program | Release Date | Release Time (Eastern Time) | LINK TO CONNECT |
| Asha and the Toymaker | Sakshi Mangal | Blue Spruce | 4/7/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| The Blue Bowl | Flo Leung | Blue Spruce | 4/7/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Harold the Iceberg Melts Down | Lisa Wyzlic | Blue Spruce | 4/8/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| If You See a Bluebird | Bahram Rahman | Blue Spruce | 4/8/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| The Little Regent | Yewande Daniel-Ayoade | Blue Spruce | 4/9/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Lost Stick | Anoosha Syed | Blue Spruce | 4/9/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Mandeep’s Cloudy Days | Kuljinder Kaur Brar | Blue Spruce | 4/10/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean | Roz MacLean | Blue Spruce | 4/10/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| Still My Tessa | Sylv Chiang | Blue Spruce | 4/11/2025 | 10:00:00 AM | |
| When the Stars Came Home | Brittany Luby | Blue Spruce | 4/11/2025 | 10:00:00 AM |
