This series examines author's of the most popular childrens books. It enables readers to discover new works by some of their favourite authors, while providing readers a more fully developed background of the author, his life and works.

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2007.
This extraordinary first collection of short stories covers the landscape of dysfunctional childhood, urban angst, and human disconnection with a wit and insight that keep you riveted to the page. The characters here have rich and imaginative interior lives, but grave difficulty relating to the outside world. The beginning story, Ducklings, introduces the over-weight and over-enthusiastic Marjorie, the last twelve-year-old you would want babysitting your toddler. In Wanted we meet Eleanor, a single girl living in Chicago...