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The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

Written by Cary Fagan

Category: Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - New Experience
Imprint: Tundra Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Pub Date: March 2004
Age: 8-12 years
Trim Size: 5-1/8 x 7-5/8
# of Pages: 176 pages
ISBN: 978-0-88776-665-7 (0-88776-665-X)

CDN Price: $12.99 / US Price: $8.95

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 rescue them from the hands of this dastardly scoundrel? Especially when that family is made up of the four most eccentric individuals you’d care to meet?

Eleven-year-old Eleanor, eight-year-old Solly, better known as Googoo Man, and their parents, who are, to say the least, odd, set out on a hilarious quest over mountains and across the seas to storm the fortress of Kaspar and retrieve the lost fountains.

Cary Fagan’s first novel for children is a fun fantasy that will keep young armchair travelers laughing right to the exciting end.



AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Cary Fagan is an award-winning writer for both young readers and adults. In addition to several picture books published with Tundra, he also wrote the award-winning biography of Chan Hon Goh, Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina’s Life. He has won a Mr. Christie Silver Medal for Daughter of the Great Zandini, a City of Toronto Book Award for his first adult novel, and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction. Cary Fagan lives in Toronto.


AWARDS

NOMINEE 2005 - Silver Birch Award for Fiction



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