About the Book

“A book to treasure and share across generations.” —David Chariandy, author of Brother

Beatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest 

How did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues composed in delicate purple handwriting? So begins the adventure of a brave girl’s search for identity and healing in celebrated author Lawrence Hill’s magical debut for young readers.

Though Beatrice cannot recall how or why she ended up in the magical forest of Argilia—where every conceivable fish, bird, mammal and reptile coexist, and any creature with a beating heart can communicate with any other—something within tells her that beyond this forest is a family that is waiting anxiously for her return.

Just outside her tree house door lives Beatrice’s most unlikely ally, the enormous and mercurial King Crocodile Croc Harry, who just may have a secret of his own. As they form an unusual truce and work toward their common goal, Beatrice and Croc Harry will learn more about their forest home than they could have ever imagined. And what they learn about themselves may destroy Beatrice’s chances of returning home forever.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443467292
• ISBN 10: 1443467294
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• On Sale: 01/11/2022
• List Price:35.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
• BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / General
• BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General

Lawrence Hill

Biography

LAWRENCE HILL is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Book of Negroes, which was made into a six-part TV mini-series, and The Illegal, which won CBC’s Canada Reads and was a #1 national bestseller. His previous novels Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood also became national bestsellers. Hill’s non-fiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing up black and white in Canada. Lawrence Hill has volunteered with Crossroads International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Book Clubs for Inmates and the Ontario Black History Society. A professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, Lawrence Hill lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario, and Woody Point, Newfoundland. 

Other Works by Lawrence Hill

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  Beatrice and Croc Harry

  By Lawrence Hill

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  Beatrice and Croc Harry

  By Lawrence Hill

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  Illegal

  By Lawrence Hill