One Year Anniversary!

As I was sitting, trying to think about what I was going to blog about today, I looked at the calendar and realised that as of this week, I’ve been working at Dundurn for a year!
The first day that I started seems so long ago; yet, at the same time, the past 3 months have [...]

Life in a Vacuum

Sometimes we exist in a vacuum. By that I mean that often we have books that we get very excited about, for instance the upcoming Something Remains and Pilgrim in the Palace of Words, but despite our sales projections and how hard we work on the publicity campaign the public’s reaction to said books are [...]

A Silver Birch Award for The Third Eye

Yesterday, I found myself outside amongst screaming fans numbering in the thousands … was I playing hooky from work and attending an outdoors concert? Nope, rather I was at the Festival of Trees, the culmination of the Forest of Reading Program, at the Habourfront Centre in Toronto, where Dundurn’s very own Mahtab Narsimhan won the Silver Birch [...]

What If Magazine Reviews The Third Eye

The Spring 2008 issue of teen magazine What If? includes a review of The Third Eye by Mahtab Narsimhan. Here’s a little snippet of what reviewer Taralyn Kerr had to say about this junior fiction novel.

“The Third Eye’s protagonist is a refreshing new personality in the literary universe of today’s fantasy novels. She is not [...]

Review round-up

First time author Nahtab Narsimhan’s novel for younger readers, The Third Eye was reviewed in this Spring’s issue of Canadian Children’s Book News. Here are a couple excerpts from Rachel Steen’s review:
In her first novel, author Mahtab Narsimhan combines elements of classic fairy tales, such as ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ with Indian mythology for a highly [...]