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Cary Fagan

Cary Fagan is the author of eight previous novels and five books of short stories, including The Student, Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart, and A Bird's Eye. He has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Writers' Trust Fiction Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and has won the Toronto Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He is also an acclaimed writer of books for children, having won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award, a Mr. Christie Silver Medal, the Joan Betty Stuchner—Oy Vey!—Funniest Children's Book Award, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. Fagan's work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Korean and Persian. He still lives in his hometown of Toronto.

Books by Cary Fagan

Water, Water

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Jon McNaught

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Chelsea O'Byrne

Boney

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova

The Animals

by (author) Cary Fagan

Bear Wants to Sing

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dena Seiferling

Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart

by (author) Cary Fagan

Maurice and His Dictionary

A True Story

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Enzo Lord Mariano

Son of Happy

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Milan Pavlović

Mr. Tempkin Climbs a Tree

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Carles Arbat

King Mouse

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dena Seiferling

The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster

by (author) Cary Fagan

The Student

by (author) Cary Fagan

What Are You Doing, Benny?

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

The Hollow under the Tree

by (author) Cary Fagan

Wolfie and Fly: Band on the Run

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Zoe Si

Wolfie and Fly

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Zoe Si

Mort Ziff Is Not Dead

by (author) Cary Fagan

Mr. Zinger's Hat

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dusan Petricic

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Banafsheh Erfanian

The Old World and Other Stories

And Other Stories

by (author) Cary Fagan

Little Blue Chair

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Madeline Kloepper

The Market Wedding

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Regolo Ricci

I Wish I Could Draw

illustrated by Cary Fagan

The Show To End All Shows

Book 2 Of Master Melville's Medicine Show

by (author) Cary Fagan

The Boy in the Box

Book 1 Of Master Melville's Medicine Show

by (author) Cary Fagan

A Bird's Eye

by (author) Cary Fagan

Danny, Who Fell in a Hole

by (author) Cary Fagan

Oy, Feh, So?

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Gary Clement

The Boy in the Box

Book 1 Of Master Melville's Medicine Show

by (author) Cary Fagan

My Life Among the Apes

by (author) Cary Fagan

Ella May and the Wishing Stone

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Genevieve Cote

Banjo of Destiny

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Selcuk Demirel

Book of Big Brothers

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Luc Melanson

The Big Swim

by (author) Cary Fagan

Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dusan Petricic

Valentine's Fall

by (author) Cary Fagan

Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit

by (author) Cary Fagan

Thing-Thing

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Nicolas Debon

Mr Karp's Last Glass /hc

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Selcuk Demirel

Mr. Karp's Last Glass

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Selcuk Demirel

My New Shirt

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dusan Petricic

Ten Old Men and a Mouse

by (author) Cary Fagan
illustrated by Gary Clement

Directed by Kaspar Snit

by (author) Cary Fagan

The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

by (author) Cary Fagan

Sleeping Weather

by (author) Cary Fagan

Streets of Attitude

edited by Cary Fagan & Robert MacDonald

A Walk by the Seine

Canadian Poets on Paris

edited by Cary Fagan

City Hall & Mrs. God

by (author) Cary Fagan

Little Black Dress

by (author) Cary Fagan