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Freedom to Read Week
February 20 - March 26, 2011

by Kit Pearson

PRESENTATIONS

Calgary Freedom of
Expression Award* Books Presented to
Calgary City Council

2011 Calgary Mayor
Naheed Nenshi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

2009 Garry Ryan
Teacher/Novelist The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman

2010 the staff and volunteers of
the Calgary Public Library And Tango Makes Three
by Peter Parnell and
Justin Richardson,
illustrated by Henry Cole.

2009 Garry Ryan
Teacher/Novelist The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman

2008 Janet Keeping
President, Sheldon Chumir
Foundation for Ethics
in Leadership Slaughter-house Five
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

2007 Nima Dorjee
Tibetan human
rights activist You Can't Read This
by Val Ross

2006 Catherine Ford
Columnist/Author The Sledding Hill
by Chris Crutcher

2005 Dr. David Swann
MLA Memoirs
by Pablo Neruda
Alice on the Outside
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

2004 the late Catherine McKay
owner Pages Bookstore Asha's Mums
by Rosamund Elwin
Belinda's Bouquet
by Leslea Newman
One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads
by Johnny Valentine

2003 Lynn Foster
Group of Six Billion (GSB) Organizing Committee Stupid White Men
by Michael Moore

2002 Bob Stallworthy and Tony King
co-founders of Calgary Freedom to Read Week Organizing Committee Places I Never Meant to Be
edited by Judy Blume.

2001 Gary Dickson
founding President of
Calgary Civil Liberties Association
and Retired MLA 100 Banned Books
edited by Karolides,
Bald & Sova
and
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling

2000 Sue Higgins
alderman & library board member This Land

1999 Ronnie Burkett
playwright & puppeteer extraordinaire Great Canadian Books
of the Century
edited by Pollack, Usukawa
& Kenward

1998 Kerry Longpré
bookstore owner & creator
of Sandpiper/Steinbeck Award Everybody's Favourites
edited by Arlene Perly Rae

1997 Michael Dobbin
actor & director A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel

1996 Ken McGoogan
author, editor The Wars
by Timothy Findley

1995 Lorne MacRae
educator Who Has Seen the Wind
by W. O. Mitchell

*Originally the Sandpiper/Steinbeck Freedom to Read Award

Most recent update: Sun Feb 13 10:00:33 MST 2011