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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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Book List in Order: 33 titles













  • A collection of stories highlights such unlikely heroes as Clarke, who doesn't have what is takes to be a salesman; Tobias, who has left his report for the last minute; and Dwight, who imitates Donald Duck when he gets in trouble. Jr Lib Guild....



  • Cluny wants to publish a magazine for people with funny names, while Fletcher pastes the names of all the places he wants to visit on his body, in this funny collection of nine wacky short stories. Reprint....



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  • When a disintegrating moon sends block architect David a plea for help, little David collects the necessary supplies; roars to the moon in his spaceship, where his blocks fix the moon perfectly; and gets home in time for breakfast. Reprint....








  • An inventive, funny, provocative, and entertaining collection of seven short stories includes the title story about the tough and abusive bully referred to as the Lord of the Fries who frequents the Burger Barn....



  • A dark family secret ...

    Stephen is fifteen when the nightmares begin. The dream is always the same: a crying baby, a wooden ladder, a house built in the branches, fire everywhere. Night after night, the fantastic images haunt hi...



  • An Edgar Award Winner

    Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose....



  • Ned Mouse has been sent to jail. His crime? Writing "The government is unfair to mice!" in his spinach. But Ned does not like jail. He does not like his tiny cell. He does not like the food. And he does not look good in stripes."I would give my right...



  • Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow...



  • Family secrets, forgotten memories, and the transforming power of truth

    It's been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present, he's avoided examining his past. But when a...



  • Why does everyone seem so scared? That's what the new boy in town, Rex Norton-Norton, aka Rex Zero, wonders as he rides his bike through Ottawa's streets. Is it spies? Kidnappers? Or is it because of the shadowy creature some say is stalking Adams Pa...



  • The adoption of a little brother sets off a series of fantastical adventures. When Mom and Dad bring home little Simón, their older son resists the idea of a new brother and retreats to a fantasy world. He builds a raft and sails to his own island o...



  • Alberta Children's Book of the Year winner

    Alberta Book Design Award winner

    Alberta Illustration Award winner

    In this wildly whimsical tale, a cautious but determined painter withstands the threats of a mob of monsters in ...






  • In sixth grade now, the wildly imaginative Rex Zero and his friends hatch a plan to replace Miss Garr, the substitute teacher from hell, and Rex takes on the persona of none other than "Dr. Love." Of course, events spin hilariously out of control....



  • Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU, thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father, Marc, offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage, she's glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and d...



  • Three beloved titles appear together at last in this deluxe gift edition. Zoom the cat has taken readers on many adventures -- from discovering the sea at the turn of a giant wheel, to visiting the North Pole on ping-pong-paddle snowshoes, to saili...



  • Rex Zero's family is moving, again, this time to a different school district, and his old friends will probably forget he even exists. What's more, a trio of bullies is out to get him. Rex's wild and funny adventures continue as he stumbles into seve...



  • Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones. Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty bel...



  • This fanciful nautical adventure stars a winsome cat named Zoom who stays indoors paddling in the sink or sailing in the bathtub all night when other self-respecting cats are out mousing and howling at the moon. One day Zoom finds in his Uncle Roy's ...



  • Pounce found Mrs. Florida Brown on a bad, bad night on the rainy side of town . . .

    Pounce de Leon, a mischievous, loving cat, adopts Mrs. Florida Brown as his constant companion. Pounce's job is to look after the aging Mrs. Brown. If her...



  • Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a...



  • The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time-shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne-Jones. When Evan's father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk -- a book his...



  • A charismatic young boy turns an everyday outing into a thrilling, top-secret adventure in this energetic, offbeat picture book. Secret Agent Man (S.A.M.) needs new shoes. His mom -- er, sidekick, "K" (short for Kay) -- takes him shopping. But...






  • A rainy night. An empty highway. And no memory. From award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones comes a riveting murder mystery that will keep readers enthralled until the last page. On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the...



  • Fast-paced, evocative, and intensely suspenseful, Tim Wynne-Jones’s latest psychological thriller finds a teenager setting his wits against the frigid wilderness and a menacing crew of escapees. Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared...



  • An insightful and funny new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones.In “War at the Snow White Motel,” Rex and his family are vacationing in Vermont. A thoughtless act launches him into war with an older teenager at t...



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    Novela epistolar, narración en la que se elevan distintas y apasionadas voces, intensa historia de amores y sentimientos, ejemplo indiscutible de novela gótica. El irlandés Bram Stoker no soñaba con que su libro, publicado...


Award-Winning Books by Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink and Caution
2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry
The Boy in the Burning House
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Wynne-Jones has published 33 books.

Tim Wynne-Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Tim Wynne-Jones, Odd's End, was published in January 1980.

No. Tim Wynne-Jones does not write books in series.