Fantasy has become an increasingly popular genre of childrens literature in recent years; Quests and Kingdoms provides a basis from which an adult unfamiliar with the genre of childrens fantasy literature may explore it. Quests is an historical survey for the interested general reader, which will be of great practical value to library and education professionals as well. Though the aim is to give adults concerned with bringing children (or teens) and books together a familiarity with the childrens fantasy genre and its history, for those who already know and love the classics of childrens...

It's the future. Jordan O'Blenis may be a genius when it comes to computers, but with spies after his sister Cassie's research in UAVs and artificial intelli-gence, he needs all the help he can get to keep her safe and save BWB Aero-space's top secret drone project. Luckily for Jordan, he has Helen the frog expert and Cassandra, the sentient supercomputer programme he created, on his side. The problem is, Helen thinks kidnapping and interrogating a government agent is a perfectly logical solution to their problems, while Cassandra has developed a bad case of ethics. When old enemies snatch...

In the late twentieth century, Canadian childrens fantasy had a poor reputation internationally. Was this reputation deserved, and if so, has the quality of childrens fantasy and the climate for its publication improved since that time? After a survey of twentieth-century Canadian childrens fantasy, Beyond Window-Dressing examines these questions through an extensive cross-section of Canadian childrens fantasy published between 2000 and 2004. From Palmer Cox and Catherine Anthony Clark to Judd Palmer and Alison Baird, and writers of international reputation such as Dave Duncan, O.R. Melling,...

Once there was a prince who set off on a quest for a magic sword. He ran into a bit of trouble with a sorcerer -- who didnt like trespassers -- and the sorcerers wolf-headed guards....
Once there was a young woman who decided to run away from home....
Luckily for the prince, who was in her fathers dungeon by then, she decided to rescue him first. Luckily for both of them, Torrie came along as well.

Cossyphas father, a reclusive sorcerer, seems to have gone mad. Hes done something truly horrible to the servants and, since becoming obsessed with a mysterious Great Spell, hardly even...

Something is cutting off Spohrvilles communication with the outside world. The phones dont work. Theres no radio, no TV -- no internet. Are eco-terrorists trying to shut down the Mars Relay satellite? Thats what the government says, but Jordan and Helen and the sentient virtual supercomputer Cassandra dont believe a word of it. The town is overrun with "birdwatchers" who cant tell a hawk from a heron. Jordans old enemy, Harvey Number Two of the spy agency Bureau 6, is sneaking around pretending to be a cop on holiday. And archaeologist Uncle William has dug up a very strange black rock while...