![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is complete with driftwood, screeching gulls, and way, way off in the distance is Uncle Roy’s elusive ship. Following destiny, he meets a girl named Maria, who turns her dark house into a roaring ocean. Zoom, a cat, explores his attic one afternoon, and discovers a map that was drawn by his mysterious Uncle Roy with some directions to the sea. “Zoom at Sea” is the first novel in the “Zoom” series, which was released in the year 1983. It was published in the year 1980 by McClelland & Stewart. It is said that his first book, “Odd’s End”, was written in just five weeks while his wife was away. “Zoom Away” won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. “Odd’s End” was awarded a fifty thousand dollar Seal First Novel Award. In the year 2012, he was Canada’s nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his work as a children’s author. He won an Arthur Ellis Award (Best Juvenile) and an Edgar Award (Best Young Adult) for “The Boy in the Burning House”. He writes the “Rex Zero” series and the “Zoom” series. He is an English-Canadian writer of children’s literature, which includes picture books and novels for children and young adults. He emigrated to Canada in the year 1952 and grew up in Ontario and British Columbia. ![]() Click (With: Eoin Colfer,Roddy Doyle,Nick Hornby,Linda Sue Park)Īuthor Tim Wynne-Jones was born Augin Bromborough, Cheshire, Great Britain. ![]()
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