Cary Fagan, Author . Groundwood $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-88899-969-6
Fagan (the Kaspar Snit books) shifts gears in this touching novel set at a Jewish sleepaway camp. Ethan did not want to be sent to Camp White Birch, but is pleasantly surprised to find that he doesn't mind it that much (even though he ends up...
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Cary Fagan, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-13921-6
In this remarkably assured first novel, which won the 1994 Jewish Book Award for fiction, Toronto Globe and Mail poetry critic Fagan (author of two story collections) proves himself a wonderful writer with a rare comic gift. At age 31, college...
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Cary Fagan. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55498-318-6
Fagan (Oy, Feh, So?) may know how to tell a story, but he can’t draw. So he claims (and demonstrates) in this faux sketchbook full of his frustrated comments and basic line drawings. “Look! I even put my hands behind my back because it’s so hard for
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Cary Fagan. Astoria (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0146-9
Fagan (A Bird’s Eye) uses 35 black-and-white photographs from the early 1900s through the 1950s to inspire a series of enchanting short stories of astonishing breadth. “Many years ago the photographs in this book became separated from their original
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Milan Pavlovic. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55498-311-7
When Danny’s parents announce their plans to split up the family so they can follow their own artistic dreams, Danny is horrified (his father wants to sing opera in New York City, and his mother intends to bake cheesecakes in Banff, Canada). Even...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Madeline Kloepper. Tundra, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77049-755-9
A boy’s favorite blue chair finds a wealth of new purposes as it’s passed from one temporary owner to another, over many years and miles. After the boy, Boo, outgrows the chair, his mother puts it out on the curb with a sign that reads, “Please take
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Zoe Si. Tundra, $14.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-101-91820-3
Renata Wolfman (aka Wolfie), a proud loner fascinated with undersea life, begrudgingly makes her first friend in neighbor Livingston Flott (aka Fly), an exuberant singer-songwriter who isn’t exactly swimming in pals himself. The two bond over a...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton. Tundra, $17.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-77049-857-0
This amusing tale of two young foxes by Fagan (Little Blue Chair) captures the ups and downs of sibling relationships. Benny’s little brother wants to join in on the fun as Benny paints in the treetops, rides his bike, and scratches a cat, but each...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Dena Seiferling. Tundra, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6803-6
When a young tricyclist loses their cargo, musical instruments bounce into the grass unnoticed. Strumming a newfound ukulele, Bear requests an audience, to which a long-tailed mouse gladly agrees. But before Bear can begin, a crow alights and, with...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Luc Melanson, Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88899-977-1
Reading this book is a lot like listening to a friend and his brothers swap favorite family stories. Individually, the stories may be compelling for their voyeuristic value (what really goes on in the living rooms and backyards of neighbors and...
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Cary Fagan, Author, Dusan Petricic, Illustrator , illus. by Dusan Petricic Tundra $10.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-88776-895-8
Fagan (the Kaspar Snit novels) continues the late Mordecai Richler’s three-book series starring an earnest boy whose name reflects the facts that he is “two plus two plus two years old” and that “nobody in his family ever...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Dusan Petricic. Tundra, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-77049-253-0
Leo’s mother has told him not to disturb Mr. Zinger, who’s a writer, but when Leo’s ball sends Mr. Zinger’s hat flying, the old man invites Leo to sit and talk. The man begins by gazing into his wayward hat to see what made it fly off. “Ah, I see...
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Cary Fagan, Author, Gary Clement, Illustrator , illus. by Gary Clement. Tundra $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88776-716-6
Like the perfect brisket, this book offers a deeply satisfying balance of sweet and sour that you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy. Membership at the venerable and once-bustling synagogue has dwindled down to 10 old men: Max, Nat, Bud, Al, Mose,
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Gary Clement. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-55498-148-9
Every Sunday, it’s the same story: the narrator’s three crotchety relatives come over, plop down on the furniture, and respond to everything with the dismissive Yiddish interjections “Oy” (Aunt Essy), “Feh” (Aunt Chanah), and “So?” (Uncle Sam)....
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Genevi%C3%A8ve C%C3%B4t%C3%A9. Tundra, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-77049-225-7
Fagan (Book of Big Brothers) draws a bead on sometimes prickly friendships in this portrait of Ella May, whose new wishing stone, brought back from vacation, has a pretty white line that goes "all-all-all the way around it." She holds the stone and...
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Cary Fagan. Tundra, $16.99 (184p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6621-6
Since his older brother, Jackson, ran away from home nine months earlier,13-year-old Hartley Staples’s life has only gotten worse. Jackson’s behavior was always erratic, but Hartley cannot fathom why he left. In addition to his deeply sad parents...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Dena Seiferling. Tundra, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6404-5
Newcomer Seiferling creates striking, silvery graphite spreads to illustrate this story by Fagan (What Are You Doing, Benny?), a fable about what happens when status turns heads. After a sleek mouse dons a tiny crown he finds in the grass, a bear...
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Enzo Lord Mariano. Owlkids, $18.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-77147-323-1
When the Nazis invade Brussels, 14-year-old Maurice and his family flee, passing through France, Spain, and Portugal before ending up interned in Jamaica at the British-run Gibraltar Camp. Throughout this graphic novel, Maurice holds on to his dream
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Cary Fagan, illus. by Dasha Tolstikova. Groundwood, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-77306-548-9
In an open-ended picture book focused on a child’s internality, young, pale-skinned Annabelle, hiking with her father and dog, finds a good-size bone on the forest floor that piques her curiosity. She wonders if it might have once belonged to a deer,
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