Cary Fagan is an award-winning children’s author, writer of adult novels, and editor and contributor to a number of magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Books in Canada. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction. Cary has written several picture books and novels for children, among them The Market Wedding, Daughter of the Great Zandini (winner of a Mr. Christie’s Silver Medal), The Fortress of Kaspar Snit and Ten Old Men and a Mouse. His latest book is My New Shirt. He is a native of Toronto.

Eleanor and Solly Blande are just like any other kids – except, they can fly and their family fights evildoers in their spare time – but apart from that, they are just like any other kids. And just like any other kids out there, they love to watch tv (especially their favourite show The Zoomers) and they don’t like it when their parents go on vacation without them. It just so happens that when their parents take a trip to Italy, and the children are taken care of by Nanny of the Year, Mrs. Leer, that their nemesis Kaspar Snit comes back onto the scene, more evil than ever. Forbidden from flying and revealing their family’s secrets to Mrs. Leer, can the children defeat Kaspar by themselves?

For as long as any of them could remember, ten old men made twice daily visits to the local synagogue. Nothing ever changes, Saul always arrives last and Moses’ pants are always in danger of falling down. One day, there is a new visitor to the synagogue. It is much shorter and much furrier that then old men, it is a mouse! After unsuccessfully trying to rid themselves of the mouse, the old men adopt it and it becomes part of the family. Until the day when the mouse has a family of her own…