The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2027 Forest of Reading.

This year’s 60 nominated titles will be read by students across the country.

The 10 nominees in the Blue Spruce category (JK–Grade 2) include Call Me Gray (Kids Can Press) written by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine (review), and My Neighborhood (Random House Children’s Books) written by Delano Brown and illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (review).

In the Silver Birch Express category (Grades 3–4), David Suzuki and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki with Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Qin Leng are nominated for Bompa’s Intertidal Adventure (Greystone Kids), as are Danny Ramadan and Anna Bron for Salma Keeps Her Word (Annick Press).

The 10 nominees in the nonfiction Yellow Cedar category (Grades 5–8) touch on a variety of topics, from animals in Built Like a Bug: How Insects Inspire Everyday Inventions (Annick Press) written by Anjali Joshi and illustrated by Kathleen Ng (review), to art in What Is a Sculpture? (Tundra Books) written by Diane Borsato and illustrated by Laura Carlin.

The Red Maple category (Grades 7–8) includes Faith Erin Hicks’s InBetweens (First Second) (review) and Eric Walters’s Sam (DCB Young Readers).

The nominees for the White Pine category (Grades 9–12) include Delali Adjoa’s The Free Verse Society (Peachtree Publishing) and Kenneth Oppel’s Best of All Worlds (Penguin Teen Canada) (profile).

The full 2027 Forest of Reading nominees are listed at forestofreading.com.

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