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Treasure Forest
First
of The Forest Inside trilogy
Winner of the 2004
Nautilus Award
for Young Adult Fiction
From the inside flap:
How can you retrieve a treasure from the bottom of a pond without disturbing the water?
This is the challenge left for Ben by his Grandma Daphne, who has just died in the mysterious forest near her home. Ben and his sister Sara convince their reluctant parents to move there, in spite of the fierce hermit who lives across the swamp.
Ben and Sara learn the deepest truths of the forest while their parents' worst fears seem to be realized. A wheelchair-bound private eye with a three-legged bloodhound, a Zen-master-like woman, an acorn flute homing device, Grandma Daphne's invisible presence, a tree house knit right into a tree, and a golden thread will guide you, as well as Ben and Sara, to discover the life-changing answer to the mysterious riddle of the pond.
Cat talks about Treasure
Forest:
"I did not know
I was writing a trilogy until I had been working on the first
novel for a full year. Slowly it became clear to me that there
was much more than would fit in one book, and Connie Kellough,
my publisher, was delighted to hear there would be more. So I
continued welcoming the pieces of the book as they came to meet
me each day, setting some aside for the rest of the trilogy. It
was only towards the end of writing the first book that I had
a second realization: I had not started in the beginning, but
the middle, and the other two books in the trilogy would come
before and after the first book. And as I became more and more
swept up by my magical knitting obsession, I realized that indeed,
I was pregnant, in the book sense, with a set of Moebius-linked
triplets. The beginning of the first novel and the end of the
third novel will share a common birth, at least that's how it
looks from here. Like a Moebius, the trilogy will have a continuous
flow, and follow a Moebius sequence.
Following the unfolding path
of a novel is astonishingly similar to following the unfurling
flow of a knitting book. Both ask me to simply show up, keyboard
or needles in hand, all my senses alert and willing to welcome
what wants
to meet me. Sometimes I think that it is because
I am tame, and so the beautiful creations that populate both novels
and knitting books come nibble the grass near my feet. I do not
invent any of it. I simply get to be where it is, experiencing
it fully so I can share it with you. And if you recognize it,
if it sparks something in you, it is because it lives in you too."
Namaste Publishing, Vancouver, Canada, 284 pages, pen and ink
illustrations & hand-drawn map, hard cover, $21.95
Released September 2003
To read about Cat's recent Nautilus Award
for Treasure Forest, go to the "News" page on this site.
To read reviews of Treasure Forest (click here)
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