... and other top moments from the Ontario Library Association Forest of Trees in Toronto on May 12th, 2015.

Thank you for the Red Maple nomination, OLA. Although my book, The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, didn't win, it hardly mattered. It was such an honour to meet the other authors, the librarians, teachers and amazing young readers ... the nomination honestly does feel like winning.

Here's a longer blog post about top moments from the Forest of Reading 2015, with photos: http://phdowding.blogspot.ca/2015/05/...