Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts Paperback by Esta Spalding; illustrated by Sydney Smith

Product Details

• Publisher: Tundra Books (2017-05-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780735263185
• Item Weight: 221.13 grams
• Dimensions: 7.69 x 5.25 x 0.62 cm

The first adventure in a rollicking, brilliantly imagined new middle grade series by award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding, with illustrations by rising new talent Sydney Smith.


     Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease--as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car.

     Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children living together on a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves. They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat fish they catch and fruit they pick, and can drive anywhere they need to go--to the school, the laundromat, or the drive-in. If they put their minds to it, the Fitzgerald-Trouts can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home.

About the Author

ESTA SPALDING is a descendant of Canadian literary royalty, and an accomplished writer in her own right. She is the supervising producer of the HBO series Masters of Sex, and is writing for the new Amazon series The Last Tycoon. She has garnered awards for her film and television work, as well as for her prose and poetry. When she's not writing, she kayaks, bakes, and assembles whale skeletons with her husband, a marine biologist.

SYDNEY SMITH was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children's books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General's Award and the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award, was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book and an ALA Notable Book, and has been long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He is also the illustrator of The White Cat and the Monkby Jo Ellen Bogart, also nominated for a Governor General's Award. Sydney has received a number of other awards for his illustrations, including the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. He now lives and works in Toronto.