Spring 2013 Online Catalogue

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Latest News

Lisa Harrington’s ‘Live to Tell’ wins the 2013 Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

Dancing Cat Books is thrilled to announce that Live to Tell, a young adult mystery-thriller written by Lisa Harrington and [Read More]

Cormorant Books publisher says a few words about the Toronto launch of ‘The Family Took Shape’

A Toronto-area book launch for The Family Took Shape, the first novel by Halifax author Shashi Bhat (who was born [Read More]

Newsletter Giveaway (May 5, 2013)

Free book! Our prize will be a copy of Dark Days at Saddle Creek, the latest in Shelley Peterson’s Saddle [Read More]

What Keeps You Up At Night?

Several months ago, to celebrate the Governor General’s Literary Award nomination for Deborah Kerbel’s YA novel Under the Moon, we [Read More]

Newsletter Giveaway (April 24th, 2013)

Shashi Bhat’s debut novel, The Family Took Shape, just landed in our wings or throat pouches or whatever it is [Read More]

Live to Tell shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award!

The accolades continue to roll in for Lisa Harrington’s YA thriller, Live to Tell. This morning, the Crime Writers of [Read More]

Newsletter Giveaway (April 8th, 2013)

We’re giving away free books … again! This week, our prize will be a copy of Elizabeth Ruth’s Matadora, set [Read More]

Newsletter Giveaway (April 1st, 2013)

We’re giving away free books! This week, our prize will be the pair of award-nominated titles featured in our latest [Read More]

Nominations for ‘Words to Live By’ and ‘Live to Tell’!

Award-wise, 2013 has been a great year for Cormorant/DCB, and things just keep getting better and better! William Whitehead’s memoir [Read More]

Dave Hugelschaffer on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers

Dave Hugelschaffer was recently interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter about Whiskey Creek, his latest murder-mystery [Read More]

Pinboy nominated for a 2013 BC Book Prize

George Bowering’s novelistic memoir (autobiographical novel?) Pinboy collected another accolade on Monday when it was announced as a finalist for [Read More]

The Tiffin nominated for the 2013 SYRCA Snow Willow Award

The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan has been named a finalist for the 2013 Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Snow Willow Award! [Read More]

The Western Light shortlisted for the 2013 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

The Western Light by Susan Swan has been named a finalist for the 2013 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading [Read More]

Two Dancing Cat titles are Resource Links Year’s Best of 2012!

Two Dancing Cat books – Under the Moon by Deborah Kerbel, and The Darkest Corner of the World by Urve [Read More]

Books on builders of Canadian culture

In light of the recent award nominations for The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca and Pinboy, we [Read More]

Charles Pachter Donates Books to the Watoto Mission in Uganda

The season of gift giving is upon us! Charles Pachter, author of M is for Moose and Canada Counts, has [Read More]

Pinboy finalist for BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

Pinboy by George Bowering has been named as a finalist for British Columbia’s 2013 National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.  The [Read More]

The Pursuit of Perfection longlisted for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non Fiction

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca by Carol Bishop-Gwyn has been named to the longlist of the [Read More]

Holiday Photo Contest

Canadian independent booksellers have always been tremendous supporters of our publishing program, and we’re always looking for ways to give [Read More]

We’re so excited about Under the Moon, we’re having a contest!

What Keeps You Up at Night? They happen to all of us: those nights when our heads are swimming with [Read More]


Spring 2013 Titles
The Phantom's Gold
Eric Murphy
Age: 10-13 | TPB | ISBN 9781770862661 | 180 pp

A young Toronto boy takes to the Nova Scotia seas in a high-stakes schooner race that puts his family legacy on the line.

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Burning from the Inside
Christine Walde
Age: 12-15 | TPB | ISBN 9781770862463 | 240 pp

Imprisoned graffiti-writer Thom is offered a chance to clean his record if he can infiltrate and inform on a group of writers known as the G7.

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Fall 2012 Titles
The Darkest Corner of the World
Urve Tamberg
Age: 12-15 | TPB | ISBN 9781770862142 | 208 pp

Madli, a fifteen-year-old living in World War II Estonia, must survive the threat of both the Soviet and Nazi regimes.

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Live to Tell
Lisa Harrington
Age: 12-15 | TPB | ISBN 9781770862173 | 192 pp

Accused of a crime she doesn’t know she committed, Libby Thorne must piece together the events of a night she can’t remember.

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Spring 2012 Titles
Dark Days at Saddle Creek
Shelley Peterson
Age: 10-13 | TPB | ISBN 9781770860896 | 320 pp

Bird has always had the ability to communicate telepathically with animals, but until now, she’s never received a mental transmission from a human. When she intercepts a message from a farmhand at a horse show, she realizes there is someone else in the world who understands her special bond with horses, and who can give her answers to questions she’s been asking her entire life.

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Under the Moon
Deborah Kerbel
Age: 12-15 | TPB | ISBN 9781770860902 | 320 pp

Lily MacArthur has never been much of a sleeper, but since the death of her Aunt Su, she’s lost the ability to sleep completely. Looking for a way to spend her sleepless nights, she slips out of the house. She meets Ben, who works the night shift at the local drive-thru. A newcomer to town, Ben has a troubled past — and future — that he keeps from Lily.

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Fall 2011 Titles
The Tiffin
Mahtab Narsimhan
Age: 9-12 | TPB | ISBN 9781770860391 | 176 pp

The dabbawallas of Mumbai deliver box lunches — called tiffins — to whitecollar workers all over the vast city. They are legendary for their near-perfect service: for every six million lunches sent, only one will fail to reach its intended destination. The Tiffin is about that one time in millions when a box goes astray, changing lives forever.

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The Circle Game
Joni Mitchell
Illustrated by Brian Deines
Age: 3-6 | HC | ISBN 9781770860421 | 32 pp

More than forty years ago, Joni Mitchell’s music helped define a generation of young people. Now, one of her classic songs is introduced to a new generation through the remarkable art of Brian Deines.

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Fall 2010 Titles
Burn
Alma Fullerton
Age: 9-12 | TPB | ISBN 9781897151952 | 264 pp

Finalist for the 2011 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award

Shortlisted for the 2011 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

A powerful free verse novel by Alma Fullerton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award-nominated Libertad, exploring a girl’s desperate attempt to keep her family together, even as
her growing obsession threatens to destroy them all.

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Home Truths
Jill MacLean
Age: 12+ | TPB | ISBN 9781897151969 | 288 pp

Finalist for the 2012 OLA Red Maple Award

Finalist for the 2011 SYRCA Snow Willow Award

The revealing portrait of a bully-in-the-making and his journey
to redemption. From Jill MacLean, two-time winner of the Ann
Connor Brimer Award.

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Giraffe and Bird
Rebecca Bender
Age: 3-6 | HC w/ dust jacket | Full colour illustrations
ISBN 9781897151846 | 32 pp

Winner of the 2012 OLA Blue Spruce Award

Shortlisted for the 2011 CBA Libris Award for Children's Picture Book of the Year

Finalist for the 2011 SYRCA Shining Willow Award

A giraffe and bird pester and annoy each other so much that they
decide to go their separate ways, only to discover that they miss
each other and, despite all the bickering, might have been good
friends after all.

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