Cary Fagan

A native of Toronto, Cary Fagan is an award-winning children’s author, a writer of adult novels, an editor and a contributor to a number of magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Books in Canada. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction. Cary has written several picture books, including Gogol’s Coat and The Market Wedding. Daughter of the Great Zandini, winner of a Mr. Christie Silver Medal, was Cary’s first novel for children.

The Fortress of Kaspar Snit was his second. He also wrote Beyond the Dance, a biography of the National Ballet of Canada’s prima ballerina Chan Hon Goh, which was shortlisted for the Norma Fleck Award for children’s non-fiction. Cary lives in Toronto with his two children.
Cary enjoys hearing from his readers. You can write to him at info@caryfagan.com. For the latest news, read carrotsticks.

Dusan Petricic

Dusan Petricic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. He graduated from Belgrade’s Academy for Applied Arts.

For the last several decades, his political cartoons and illustrations regularly appeared at the major Yugoslav newspapers and magazines, and, since 1993, at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Star,
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As the co-author or illustrator he created more than 40 books for children, both in Yugoslavia and North America.

For his work he was awarded at the numerous International Exhibitions and Fairs: Tokyo, Amsterdam, Belgrade. Leipzig, Moscow, Budapest, Ankara, New York, Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia, Skopje…

Dusan Petricic was a professor of illustration and animation at the Belgarde’s Academy for Applied Arts and Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada.Since 1993 he lives in Toronto, together wit his wife Dragana and daughter Mihaila.