Happy Book Birthday to Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, book six in the award-winning Weird Stories Gone Wrong Series, which publishes today, Sept. 21/2019!
This environmental resistance dystopia really hit the mark: kids stand up to a greedy corporation to save the local environment.
Order your copy of Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet now!
Yesterday was Climate Strike day all across the world, with millions of kids taking part across the planet. I couldn't be prouder of them, and my newest book reinforces their message: we have to act NOW to save the planet, and kids are going to lead the way.
A timely message (writers are nothing if not futurists), and with seven gorgeous illustrations by series illustrator Shawna Daigle, we're really pleased with this final book in the series.
If you'd like a review or media copy, please contact the publisher: DUNDURN PRESS.
Review copies are going out with an author's letter, which I've posted below.
"Dear Reader,
It's a real pleasure to introduce Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet, my 6th and final book in the Weird Stories Gone Wrong series.
I’ve been incredibly
lucky to work with Dundurn Press, who have allowed me free reign with these six
creepy, weird, fun stories. I’ve also had a fantastic illustrator for the
series, Shawna Daigle, whose weirdness pretty much exactly matches my own!
Thank you to them.
Each story has allowed me to scratch
a creative itch it would have been tough to reach in any other written form. I
wrote about a giant’s hand buried in a farmer’s field (Jake and the Giant
Hand, 2014), and about a monster following the family car on a long drive (Myles
and the Monster Outside, 2015). I wrote a love letter to the fall fair in Carter
and the Curious Maze (2016), a time-travel story set on the grounds of the
Canadian National Exhibition. I scratched a 20-year itch when I wrote Alex
and The Other (2018), a doppelgรคnger story I first wrote as a script idea
in the ‘90s. I’ve sailed all my life, so it was a delight to finally share my
love of a good, spooky sea story in Blackwells and the Briny Deep (2018).
With Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet
(2019), I’ve wrapped up the series with a story that couldn’t be more
timely. Quinn’s story is an environmental resistance dystopia; the children in
this story learn to resist, and must stand up to a greedy corporation
determined to ruin the environment. There are many ways to resist, many
outcomes of resistance, and in Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet I’ve tried to
touch on some, like running away, secret signals, naming ourselves, sabotage, civil
disobedience, dreaming of a better world, or simply enduring.
This book is dedicated to “The
keepers of the blue spark,” the next generation of readers who look to us to
inspire, entertain, and to hold up a lantern in the darkness. It’s been a
privilege (and a lot of fun) to strive to do that with this series, and my
enduring thanks to my publishing partners, readers, supporters and friends for
helping me hold the lantern high.
Philippa Dowding, September 2019"
Thank you all, it's been incredible fun writing this series, and sharing it with everyone. Watch out for weirdness lurking below the surface of everything!
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