Cary Fagan

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1993
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Jacob Two-Two Adventures

Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas (Sep-2009)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Little Black Dress

    Cary Fagan?s previous collection of stories was awarded four stars by NOW Magazine; Quill & Quire called it "astonishing," and chose it as one of the season?s best literary books.

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  • The Animals Waltz

    Sheila Hersh is spending her early thirties leading a double life. She hangs out at the cool Firenze Bar at night, has a closetful of black clothes, and is even the reluctant star of an underground film. By day she writes ad copy for her father's ...

  • Sleeping Weather

    `Cary Fagan's new novel is intense, lyrical, and emotionally charged. Leon Stone is a man blessed with good fortune -- a wife he continues to feel passion for, a young daughter, a safe neighbourhood. But his fear that it will all be taken away fro...

  • The Fortress of Kaspar Snit

    Chosen for inclusion in the reading list for the 2006 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award


    Kaspar Snit is a villainous villain who is determined to steal all the fountains in the world. Why? Fountains are beautiful and give people pleasure...

  • Directed by Kaspar Snit

    Fresh from their victory over the nasty Kaspar Snit, -- who was last seen trying to steal the fountains of Rome in The Fortress of Kaspar Snit -- the Blande family have certainly earned a rest. They’re not actually an average family (what avera...

  • Ten Old Men and a Mouse

    The synagogue was once a busy, bustling place, but now only ten old men come to tend it and pray each day. Then one day, a little scritch-scratch betrays the first new member in years: a tiny mouse who has taken up residence among the holy books. Of ...

  • My New Shirt

    Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David’s living nightmare. The “surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts -- “perfect gentlemen...

  • Mr. Karp's Last Glass

    Young Randolph has two favorite pastimes -- hockey and collecting. He collects both the ordinary (beer bottle caps) and the esoteric (new words). After his father loses his job, Randolph is horrified to learn the family must take in Mr. Karp, a bo...

  • Thing-Thing

    Thing-Thing was neither a Teddy bear nor a rabbit; not a stuffed dog or cat. It was something like each of those, and nothing at all you could name. But it had something special. It had the hope that one day it would find a child to love it and talk ...



  • Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit

    Until things begin to go wrong, thirteen-year-old Eleanor Blande had hoped that this would be her best year ever. First her father finds himself without work. Then Levon du Plessy-Minsk, the Creature Catcher, threatens to expose Eleanor’s secret to...

  • Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas

    Jacob Two-Two Adventures

    He’s back! The late Mordecai Richler had planned more adventures for his small hero and now, with the full support of the Richler family, award-winning author Cary Fagan carries on the tradition in a hilarious story for a whole new generation of Ja...

  • The Big Swim

    When Ethan arrives at summer camp for the first time, he has just three modest goals. First, to survive. Second, not to be hated. Third, not to be the worst at anything. But these goals turn out to be relatively easy to achieve. Instead, his real cha...

  • Book of Big Brothers

    In this episodic tale that’s rich with Cary Fagan’s characteristically dry humor, a boy tells the story of his life with two older brothers. When he is only a week old, his brothers argue over who can hold him first and drop him onto the porch. B...

  • Banjo of Destiny

    Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program.Jeremiah Birnbaum is stinking rich. He lives in a house with nine bathrooms, a games room, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a m...

  • Ella May and the Wishing Stone

    When Ella May finds a smooth stone with a line going all-all-all the way around it, she is convinced it has magical powers. Surely such a stone will grant wishes, she thinks. But when her friends want to join in the fun, Ella May says that the sto...

  • Mr. Zinger's Hat

    Cary Fagan is the award-winning author of several young adult novels and picture books. This wonderful new story is about stories, and story-telling, and is sure to enchant and instruct children at home and at school for years to come. This is t...

  • The Boy in the Box

    “If you always feel fully and completely happy, my friends, then you do not need my drops and I will not sell them to you for any amount of money.” -- Master Melville Eleven-year-old juggling enthusiast Sullivan Mintz helps his family run th...

  • The Animals' Waltz

    Sheila Hersh is spending her early thirties leading a double life. She hangs out at the cool Firenze Bar at night, has a closetful of black clothes, and is even the reluctant star of an underground film. By day she writes ad copy for her father's...

  • Danny, Who Fell in a Hole

    Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express AwardDanny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits -- and the company of a poetry-spouting mole…Danny’s parents have alwa...



  • Oy, Feh, So?

    Every Sunday Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah, and Uncle Sam drive up in the old Lincoln for the afternoon. They plop themselves down in the living room, and no matter what anyone says their response is always the same -- "Oy,” "Feh,” "So?” One aft...

  • I Wish I Could Draw

    The narrator of I Wish I Could Draw shares a name with creator Cary Fagan and has the same curly hair and glasses. Perhaps most interesting of all, though, the narrator believes he has no artistic talent -- just like the Cary Fagan, who not only w...

  • The Market Wedding

    When Morris the fishmonger and Minnie the hat seller fall in love, Morris comes up with a wedding plan designed to deliver the very best for his beloved bride-to-be . . . with unexpected consequences. In Kensington Market Morris sells all kinds of fi...

  • History Lessons

    The stories in History Lessons, Cary Fagan's first collection of fiction, reveal the dreams and deceptions that people live by. These works have a vivid sense of place and detail as they trace the inner lives of characters. Among them: an...

  • Little Blue Chair

    A sweet, whimsical tale that chronicles the journey of a chair as it changes hands and uses. Perfect for fans of The Good Little Book, Something for Nothing and Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House.Boo's favorite chair is little...

  • Wolfie and Fly

    A classic story of imagination, friendship, adventure and speeding through the ocean in a cardboard box. For fans of Ivy & Bean, Judy Moody or Nate the Great.Wolfie and Fly is an early chapter book at its simplest and best. Ou...

  • A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

    Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan. In her North American debut, illustrator Banafsheh Erfanian brings ornate artistry ...

  • Mort Ziff Is Not Dead

    A humorous coming-of-age middle-grade novel set in 1960s Florida. Battling obxious siblings, sunburns, and a corporate millionaire, Norman is determined to help an old comedian save his career. It's the winter of 1965. Norman Fishbein is endur...

  • The Old World and Other Stories

    These thirty-five brief stories ― and the found photographs that inspired them ― are by turns realistic and surreal, bloody and tender, delightful and appalling. Award-winning author Cary Fagan has created a mesmerizing series of narrative tal...

  • Wolfie and Fly: Band on the Run

    A classic story of imagination, friendship, rock bands and high-speed helicopter chases. For fans of Ivy & Bean, Judy Moody or Nate the Great.Everyone's favorite odd couple is back. Our heroine, Renata Wolfman (Wolfie) does everything by herself....



  • The Hollow Under the Tree

    An escaped lion is hiding in the middle of the city, and it is up to Sadie and Theo to save him!When a circus train derails in Toronto in 1925, a lion escapes and finds shelter in High Park, a four-hundred-acre park in the west end of the city. No on...

  • What Are You Doing, Benny?

    From New York Times-bestselling illustrator Kady MacDonald Denton and award-winning author Cary Fagan comes a charming sibling story that has the makings of a contemporary classic.Benny's little brother is really good at a lot of things -- making pot...

  • The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster

    Who is Gretchen Oyster? The discovery of a series of mysterious handmade postcards distracts Hartley from trouble at home. A poignant novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Holly Goldberg Sloan.Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappli...

  • King Mouse

    King Mouse finds his authority in question when his subjects find crowns of their own. A gentle and humorous modern fable about imaginative play and kindness in the tradition of classics like Little Bear and Frog and Toad.A sweet, thoughtful tale of ...

  • Mr. Tempkin Climbs a Tree

    School's out, and Marky looks forward to summer, including helping his friend and neighbor, Mr. Tempkin, with his garden. But when Mr. Tempkin's plan to thwart the squirrels that have been raiding his birdfeeder goes awry, Marky learns how special a ...

  • Son of Happy

    The boy in this story never wants to go to his friends’ birthday parties, because Happy the Clown is always there. And Happy is … his dad.

    He wishes his dad had a regular job, like all the other kids’ parents. He didn’t mind his dad ...

  • Maurice and His Dictionary

    This is the story of one refugee family’s harrowing journey, based on author Cary Fagan’s own family history. The graphic novel follows a young Jewish boy, Maurice, and his family as they flee their home in Belgium during the Second Wor...

  • Bear Wants to Sing

    Bear wants to sing his song, but the other animals won't give him a chance to perform his masterwork in this delightful picture book companion to the critically acclaimed King Mouse.A bear finds a ukulele in the woods. It makes a nice sound -- P...

  • Water, Water

    One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable middle-grade novel with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road.One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is fl...

  • The Animals

    In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit...



  • Boney

    Annabelle discovers an animal bone in the woods and decides to make it her new plaything. But nature ends up moving Annabelle in mysterious ways. At first, Boney, as Annabelle names him, makes the perfect companion. While Mom is busy with the baby, B...

  • Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door

    The arrival of a mysterious new neighbor inspires a kid to write her own poetry in this humorous and unforgettable new middle-grade novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan.Andie Gladman is your typical kid -- she lives in a small town, doesn't hav...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cary Fagan has published 41 books.

Cary Fagan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Cary Fagan, Little Black Dress, was published in March 1993.

No. Cary Fagan does not write books in series.
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