Another Exciting Red Cedar Award Nomination
Who-whoo! Owls: Who Gives a Hoot? is a nominee for the 2025/26 Red Cedar Award, making it my third children’s book to be selected for this honour by the Young Readers’ Choice Book Awards Society of British Columbia. Beavers competed for this readers’ choice award in 2022/23 and Grizzly Bears followed in 2024/25.
Each fall, the society picks a handful of Canadian fiction and nonfiction books written for grades 4-7 and invites kids to read them and vote for their favourites in the spring. Participants form reading groups, which can involve as many or as few people as they want — even just one — and group registration is free. To be eligible to vote, readers must read at least five of the nominated books in that category.
It’s a great way to encourage kids to read, talk about and think about books. If you know, or are, a young reader who would like to join in the fun, visit the Red Cedar Awards website for all the details, including the full list of 2025/26 nominees in the nonfiction category.
