Books published by publisher HarperCollins Canada / Fiction

Fat is allowed to participate in a traveling stage show, and feels acting is his calling, until Grandmother Bailey finds out, while Hub is sent to pitch hay with other local farmers, teaching him that there is more to earning a paycheck than he bargained for.Fat participates in a traveling stage show, and feels acting is his calling, while Hub is sent to pitch hay with other local farmers, teaching him that there is more to earning a paycheck than he bargained for

Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing at a very young age by the father he idolized. Often paralyzed by fear, young Norman resented losing his childhood to his father's reckless and demanding adventures, even as he began to reap the rewards of his training.Then, in February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying 11-year old Norman, his father, his father's girlfriend and the pilot, crashed into Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains. Norman's father -- a man who was both his coach and hero-was dead, his girlfriend soon to follow. Suspended at over 8,000 feet and engulfed in a blizzard, the grief-stricken boy descended the icy mountain alone. Putting his father's passionate lessons to work, Norman defied the elements and made it through alive -- the sole survivor of the crash. As he told theLos Angeles Timesafter his ordeal, "My dad told me never to give up."Set in Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s,Crazy for the Stormcaptures the bohemian surf culture of Southern California and a boy's conflicted feelings for his magnetic, larger-than-life father. A compulsive, page-turning read, at times nostalgic and heart-wrenching, the story recounts the exhilarating tests of skill that prepared Norman to become a surfer and ski champion-the same skills that ultimately saved his life.

A fractured fairy tale that'll tickle their funny bones.All the classic elements are here: A beautiful young princess,an evil witch, a helpful frog (a.k.a.the knight), a girl-eating dragon and a dilemma that's as tough as the scales on that same dragon's back. But this enchanting new story casts its own unique spell with a delightfully funny,contemporary incantation over the traditional fairy tale genre. Frogs refuse to be kissed; the handsome duke faints when he tries to replace the princess' missing glass slipper,and the dragon changes into a chubby, white bunny.Like her wonderful tale, Leslie Elizabeth Watts' softly glowing illustrations are the perfect blend of fairy-dusted magic and warm realism that will bewitch every young child and their parents too.