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Tundra author CARY FAGAN has written award-winning books for both adults and children. Cary has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and the Mr. Christie Silver Medal. His picture books are Gogol’s Coat, The Market Wedding, Ten Old Men and a Mouse, and My New Shirt. His novels
for children include Daughter of the Great Zandini, The Fortress of Kaspar Snit (Silver Birch Honor Book), and Directed by Kaspar Snit (Silver Birch nominee). Cary Fagan lives in Toronto.
For more information, please visit the author's website.
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Daughter of the Great Zandini
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Cybele Young
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-534-6 (0-88776-534-3) | August 2001 | 18.99
Tradition is important to the Great Zandini, the great magician of Paris. His grandfather was a magician, his father was a magician, and his son will be a magician too. Unfortunately, his son Theodore does not feel the same way. Zandini won’t hear of opposition. Besides, his arch nemesis, newspaper reporter... [read more]
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Directed by Kaspar Snit
Written by Cary Fagan
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - New Experience; Juvenile Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic | 978-0-88776-753-1 (0-88776-753-2) | February 2007 | 12.99
Fresh from their victory over the nasty Kaspar Snit, — who was last seen trying to steal the fountains of Rome in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit — the Blande family have certainly earned a rest. They’re not actually an average family (what average family has the power to fly?), but... [read more]
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The Fortress of Kaspar Snit
Written by Cary Fagan
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - New Experience | 978-0-88776-665-7 (0-88776-665-X) | March 2004 | 12.99
Chosen for inclusion in the reading list for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
Kaspar Snit is a villainous villain who is determined to steal all the fountains in the world. Why? Fountains are beautiful and give people pleasure, two things he can’t abide.
Can a family of four who love fountains... [read more]
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Gogol's Coat
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Regolo Ricci
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-429-5 (0-88776-429-0) | September 1998 | 17.99
A new twist on a Russian masterpiece
In an unnamed city, in an unnamed country, sometime long ago, there lived a poor but talented scrivener named Gogol. Having only an old and patched topcoat, Gogol spends his life savings on a new warm coat for winter. Gogol’s coat is spectacular – everyone... [read more]
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Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Dusan Petricic
eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-1-77049-071-0 (1-77049-071-X) | September 2009 | 10.95
He’s back! The late Mordecai Richler had planned more adventures for his small hero and now, with the full support of the Richler family, award-winning author Cary Fagan carries on the tradition in a hilarious story for a whole new generation of Jacob fans.
After Jacob Two-Two’s father writes a very... [read more]
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Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure; Juvenile Fiction - Family | 978-0-88776-895-8 (0-88776-895-4) | September 2009 | 12.99
He’s back! The late Mordecai Richler had planned more adventures for his small hero and now, with the full support of the Richler family, award-winning author Cary Fagan carries on the tradition in a hilarious story for a whole new generation of Jacob fans.
After Jacob Two-Two’s father writes a very... [read more]
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The Market Wedding
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Regolo Ricci
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-492-9 (0-88776-492-4) | September 2000 | 19.99
The fishmonger has fallen in love with the milliner, whose cart is across the street from his. But how is he to give his bride the elegant home she deserves? He has a brilliant plan: he will make their wedding so fine that surely their friends will shower them with the... [read more]
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My New Shirt
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction - Religious - Jewish | 978-0-88776-715-9 (0-88776-715-X) | September 2007 | 22.99
Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David’s living nightmare. The “surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts — “perfect gentlemen” shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his... [read more]
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Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit
Written by Cary Fagan
Trade Paperback | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic | 978-0-88776-835-4 (0-88776-835-0) | September 2008 | 11.99
Until things begin to go wrong, thirteen-year-old Eleanor Blande had hoped that this would be her best year ever. First her father finds himself without work. Then Levon du Plessy-Minsk, the Creature Catcher, threatens to expose Eleanor’s secret to the world. To make matters worse, Eleanor’s mother has developed a fear... [read more]
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Ten Old Men and a Mouse - Dutch Edition
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Gary Clement
Hardcover | Tundra Books | | 978-0-88776-908-5 (0-88776-908-X) | August 2008 | 21.99
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Ten Old Men and a Mouse
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Gary Clement
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Animals; Juvenile Fiction - Religious - Jewish; Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-88776-716-6 (0-88776-716-8) | March 2007 | 21.99
The synagogue was once a busy, bustling place, but now only ten old men come to tend it and pray each day. Then one day, a little scritch-scratch betrays the first new member in years: a tiny mouse who has taken up residence among the holy books. Of course, a trap... [read more]
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Thing-Thing
Written by Cary Fagan
Illustrated by Nicolas Debon
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Toys, Dolls, Puppets; Juvenile Fiction | 978-0-88776-839-2 (0-88776-839-3) | August 2008 | 20.99
Thing-Thing was neither a Teddy bear nor a rabbit; not a stuffed dog or cat. It was something like each of those, and nothing at all you could name. But it had something special. It had the hope that one day it would find a child to love it and talk... [read more]
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Beyond the Dance
Written by Chan Hon Goh and Cary Fagan
eBook | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Bio & Autobiography - Performing Arts; Juvenile Nonfiction - Performing Arts - Dance | 978-1-77049-064-2 (1-77049-064-7) | June 2009 | 15.95
Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award
Nominated for The Rocky Mountain Book Award (An Alberta Children's Choice Book Award)
Nominated for the 2003 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
An elegant, expressive dancer, Chan Hon Goh is one of the ballet world’s great stars. She is a brilliant technician possessing a delicate... [read more]
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Beyond the Dance
Written by Chan Hon Goh and Cary Fagan
Hardcover | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Bio & Autobiography - Performing Arts; Juvenile Nonfiction - Performing Arts - Dance | 978-0-88776-596-4 (0-88776-596-3) | September 2002 | 24.99
Shortlisted for the Rocky Mountain Book Award
Nominated for The Rocky Mountain Book Award (An Alberta Children's Choice Book Award)
Nominated for the 2003 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
An elegant, expressive dancer, Chan Hon Goh is one of the ballet world’s great stars. She is a brilliant technician possessing a delicate... [read more]
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