The Painting
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781101918876
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $34.99

The Painting

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19 Sep 2017
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3 Sep 2019
Hardback
15 Oct 2017
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A haunting, beautiful middle-grade novel about fractured relationships, loss, ghosts, friendship and art.

A haunting, beautiful middle-grade novel about fractured relationships, loss, ghosts, friendship and art.

Annie and her mother don't see eye to eye. When Annie finds a painting of a lonely lighthouse in their home, she is immediately drawn to it--and her mother wishes it would stay banished in the attic. To her, art has no interest, but Annie loves drawing and painting.

When Annie's mother slips into a coma following a car accident, strange things begin to happen to Annie. She finds herself falling into the painting and meeting Claire, a girl her own age living at the lighthouse. Claire's mother Maisie is the artist behind the painting, and like Annie, Claire's relationship with her mother is fraught. Annie thinks she can help them find their way back to each other, and in so doing, help mend her relationship with her own mother.

But who IS Claire? Why can Annie travel through the painting? And can Annie help her mother wake up from her coma?

The Painting is a touching, evocative story with a hint of mystery and suspense to keep readers hooked.
  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781101918876
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for The Painting

ACCOLADES AND PRAISE FOR The Swallow:

Winner, IODE Violet Downey Book Award
Selected, VOYA Top Shelf honoree of 2014
Listed, OLA Best Bet, Junior Fiction Top 10
Listed as #3 in Amazon.ca Best Books of September for Children and Teens
Nominated, Saskatchewan Young Reader's Choice Diamond Willow Award, 2014
Selected, one of the Kidlit Books of the Year (2014) by Quill & Quire
Nominated, Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award, 2015/2016
Nominated, Cooperative Children's Book Centre Choices 2015
Nominated, Red Cedar Award 2015
Honored, CLA Book of the Year for Children 2015
Shortlisted, Rocky Mountain Book Award 2015

"Middle-grade storytelling at its very best--extraordinary."
--Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews

"The Swallow is never heavy-handed, and, best of all, it's genuinely spooky. Cotter builds suspense without artificially withholding information from the reader. And for bibliophiles, the author's subtle hat tips to favourite books are a joy. Like all the best ghost stories, The Swallow tells us more about the living than the dead. It is a fantastic addition to Toronto literature, with all the makings of a classic."
--Starred Review, Quill & Quire

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