Career
Writer and illustrator.
Awards, Honors
Arthur Ellis Award shortlist, and Anthony Award for Best First Novel shortlist, both 1991, both for The Chocolate Box; Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, 2005, for Crocodile Tears.
Writings
self-Illustrated
- The Troll of Sora, Oxford University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991.
- Princess Stinky-Toes and the Brave Frog Robert, Harper Collins (New York, NY), 1995.
- The Baabaasheep Quartet, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2005.
illustrator
- Adele Mongan Fasick, The Beauty Who Would Not Spin, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1989.
- Sheree Fitch, There's A Mouse in My House, Doubleday Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1997.
- Sheree Fitch, If I Were the Moon, Doubleday (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1999.
- Penelope Larkspur, The Secret Life of Faries, Kids Can Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1999.
- Stephen Eaton Hume, Red Moon Follows Truck, Orca Book Publishers (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 2001.
- Andrea Spalding, It's Raining, It's Pouring, Orca Book Publishers (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 2001.
- Andrea Spalding, The Most Beautiful Kite in the World, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2002.
- Karleen Bradford, You Can't Rush a Cat, Orca Book Publishers (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 2003.
- Lena Coakley, On the Night of the Comet, Orca Book Publishers (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 2004.
- Rachna Gilmore, Making Grizzle Grow, Fitzhenry & Whiteside (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2006.
other
- The Chocolate Box: An Edna Heathcott Mystery (novel), General Paperbacks (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1991.
- Also author of episodes for The Eleventh Hour, CTV, 2002–04. Contributor of short fiction to anthologies, including Revenge: A Noir Anthology about Getting Even, edited by Kerry J. Schooley and Peter Sellers, Insomniac Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2004.
Biographical and Critical Sources
periodicals
- Booklist, January 1, 2002, Ellen Mandel, review of Red Moon Follows Truck, p. 865; December 15, 2005, Carolyn Phelan, review of The Baabaasheep Quartet, p. 52.
- Canadian Book Review Annual, 1996, review of Princess Stinky-Toes and the Brave Frog Robert, p. 461.
- Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2005, review of The Baabaasheep Quartet, p. 1237.
- Publishers Weekly, December 6, 1999, "Fairies, Gnomes, and Unicorns," p. 79.
- Quill & Quire, February, 1996, review of Princess Stinky-Toes and the Brave Frog Robert, p. 42; April, 1999, review of If I Were the Moon, p. 36.
- Resource Links, June, 2001, Valerie Pollock, review of It's Raining, It's Pouring, p. 5.
- School Library Journal, January, 2000, Kathleen M. Kelly MacMillan, review of There's a Mouse in My House!, p. 94; September, 2001, Gay Lynn, review of It's Raining, It's Pouring, p. 206; February, 2002, Kathleen Simonetta, review of Red Moon Follows Truck, p. 107.
- Times Educational Supplement, March 30, 1990, review of The Troll of Sora, p. 10.
online
- Canadian Review of Materials Online, http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/ (April 28, 2000), Harriet Zaidman, review of The Secret Life of Fairies.
- Orca Book Publishers Web site, http://www.orcabook.com/ (January 30, 2006).
