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Zoom the cat loves water – not to drink, but to play with. A map in the attic leads him to a beautiful woman who lives in a huge house. When, with the turn of a large wheel, mysterious Maria launches him on a wonderful sea voyage, the first of Zoom’s amazing adventures begins.
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Tim Wynne-Jones is the author of twenty-four books for adults and children. He has won the Governor General's Award for children's literature twice -- in 1993 for his collection of short stories, Some of the Kinder Planets, and in 1995 for his novel, The Maestro. He has also won the Canadian Library Association Book Award four times. His work has been translated into Dutch, Danish, German, French, Italian, Catalan, Japanese and Korean. Tim’s last novel, The Boy in the Burning House, won the Arthur Ellis Award of the Crime Writers of Canada and the Edgar Trophy of the Mystery Writers of America as the best mystery story of the year for young adults. It also won the Insula Romana Prize in Umbra, Italy, as the YA novel of the year. Tim lives with his wife, Amanda Lewis, and their youngest child on 76 acres of bush land near Perth, Ontario. Two older children live in Toronto and London, England.
Eric Beddows has twice won the Canadian Library Association’s Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for Zoom at Sea, and Zoom Away, written by Tim Wynne-Jones, and he was shortlisted for IBBY’s prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal. As well as the three Zoom stories, Eric has illustrated several other picture books, including Night Cars by Teddy Jam and Who Shrank my Grandmother’s House by Barbara Juster Ebensen. In 1996, he was given a Governor General’s Literary Award for The Rooster’s Gift. Eric lives in Stratford, Ontario.
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