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James Davidge
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Volume One in the Driftwood Saga |
It was during a normally quiet day on Ellesmere Island that Old Bart was interrupted by a pregnant woman floating towards him in an old rowboat. The woman came onto shore, quickly gave birth to a wee girl and died shortly after. The orphaned Driftwood Ellesmere was raised by Old Bart, Clara the Maid and Wilson the Cook in the Toque and Mitt Inn, the most northern hotel in the world.
Not until she is sixteen does Driftwood leave the island for the first time to begin working as a counselor at Camp Magee in British Columbia. Her fun with her new camp friends is interrupted when the last session of kids arrive all entirely addicted to small video game boxes. None will do a single outdoor activity. They growl and try to bite if anyone interrupts the playing of their repetitive consoles. Why is a shy young northern girl the only hope to free these children from their electronic chains?
This is how a wondrous story begins that tells both of how Driftwood grew up learning magical things in Arctic isolation and of her first exciting adventure off the island. Traveling with her best friend, Rose, Driftwood tackles the problems of the world head-on, all the while encountering mythical sea goddesses, peculiar monsters and much other strangeness. On her journey she ever learns more about her mysterious past and her truly amazing potential.
James Davidge, author, lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is the writer of The Wandering Stars, an independent comic. He is a teacher of mathematics and science at the Willow Park School for Arts-Centred Learning.
Judd Palmer, illustrator, is a puppeteer in the Old Trout Puppet Workshop and the creator of the Preposterous Fables for Unusual Children series of books.
Cover Illustration by David Lane
(oil on canvas)
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