ANOTHER AWARD NOMINATION FOR GOTCHA! 18 AMAZING WAYS TO FREAK OUT YOUR FRIENDS!
Mar. 03, '10

Gotcha! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends, written by David Acer, has garnered yet another award nomination, this time it's a Diamond Willow Award (for upper elementary readers, grades 4 to 6).

The mission of The Willow Awards is to promote reading by granting a Willow Award to the Canadian and/or Saskatchewan book(s) voted by Saskatchewan students to be the best of those nominated in designated categories for a specific year.

In an effort to encourage participation by all children, regardless of the level at which they are reading, three awards have been established:

• The Shining Willow Award for books written for young readers
• The Diamond Willow Award for titles written for upper elementary readers (grades 4-6)
• The Snow Willow Award for books for young people in grades 7 - 9

In the first year of voting (2002), more than 5,000 students participated. The number of participants has increased to more than 10,000 in 2007-2008.

Winners will be announced at the end of May or beginning of June.

The Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice - The Willow Awards, Inc. (SYRCA) is a volunteer-run non-profit, registered charity begun in 2001.

For more information about the Willow Awards, please visit: http://www.willowawards.ca/

ABOUT GOTCHA! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak out Your Friends!

Written by David Acer ("Doubting Dave") and illustrated by Stephen MacEachern, the book debunks some of the world's oldest myths and mysteries and shows kids how they can re-create them to totally creep out their friends!

The book, complete with step-by-step magic tricks and stills from actual Mystery Hunters episodes, is published by Kids Can Press and is available in all major bookstores. It can also be purchased online at www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, and on the Kids Can Press website. The book is available in the United States and can be purchased on www.amazon.com and other leading bookstores.

Mystery Hunters is currently in its fourth television season and is produced by Apartment 11 Productions in association with YTV, Discovery Network, and Discovery Kids and with the participation of the Shaw Rocket Fund.

GOTCHA! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak out Your Friends Does Bigfoot exist? Are crop circles made by aliens? Can dead bodies climb out of their graves and show up at your birthday party? Join Doubting Dave and the Mystery Hunters as they investigate some of the world's oldest and coolest mysteries. Then learn how to re-create those mysteries YOURSELF to fool your friends!

• Make fake Big Foot prints in your own backyard
• Take phony UFO photos in your car
• Use an amazing illusion to turn yourself into a headless zombie
• Freeze your BFF in her tracks with a trick that looks like hypnosis

PLUS you'll learn how to test your ESP, snap a fake ghost photo, bend a spoon with your brain and 9 other cool feats. AND teenage Mystery Hunters Araya and Christina will answer all your questions about ghosts, aliens, psychics, hypnotists, sea monsters, Bigfoot and more! Find out the truth while you freak out your friends then you can say GOTCHA!