Lynda Colgan's book Mathemagic has been nominated by the Ontario Library Association for its Forest of Reading® Program 2012 Silver Birch Award for Children's Non-Fiction.  

The Forest of Reading® Program encourages a love of reading in people of all ages and is Canada's largest recreational reading program.  It celebrates Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators and more than 250,000 readers participate annually from their School and/or Public Library.  The Silver Birch Award is for children's books for students in grades 3-6. The Award will be announced at the Forest of Reading Banquet in Toronto in May.

With Mathemagic, which is available from Kids Can Press, math becomes magic for kids. The book includes ten different categories of math tricks, which are explained using colourful illustrations, step-by-step instructions and explanations of how and why these number tricks work.

As kids work their way through each trick, they will have fun learning math concepts including calculation, multiplication, prime factors, the Nine Principal, the Binary Number System and more. 

The book correlates to the Ontario mathematics curriculum, and it engages students, parents and other adults in complementary "kitchen table" mathematics. By inviting both children and adults into a world of incidental learning, Colgan has created a community of mathematics learners of many ages that supports and extends the teaching that occurs in schools.