Andrea Spalding (Can)
Is an editor, musician, actress, professional storyteller, and writer for radio and television. Brandywine, her folk duo, has produced two records - "Breakfast with Brandywine" and "The Most Beautiful Kite in the World" – and she co-wrote a TV series on Alberta ethnic groups, "Through Western Eyes." Her book Finders Keepers was nominated for BC Book Prize's Sheila A. Egoff Award and the Silver Birch Award. She has also been nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers Choice, and the Tiny TORGI. Her latest titles are The Disappearing Dinosaur (part of the unique Internet-integrated Adventure Net series of children’s books, co-produced with her husband David) and Dance of the Stones.
Adventure Net: The Klondike Ring (Whitecap Books, 2003)  

Publications

Willow and Rick are on the bus headed for Dawson City to join their parents — who are making a film about the gold rush — and Robert Service, a famous poet from the time. On the bus they meet Kate, who is on her way to work for Parks Canada in Dawson City. Rick is immediately suspicious of her, but Willow thinks she’s cool. In Dawson City, they learn a lot about the gold rush and the history of the town. They meet Casey Erikson, whose great grand dad was a friend of Robert Service. Casey takes the two panning for gold in the river and surprisingly, Willow finds a ring with a gold nugget set in it. Willow puts up a lost and found notice about the ring, but secretly hopes she can keep it. Meanwhile, Kate starts arranging a community concert and asks the kids to participate. She requests Rick to do a recitation of a Robert Service poem. A little while later, Rick has an adventure with a bear near a cabin. When he enters the cabin, he discovers a poem stuffed in a hole in the wall. The poem sounds remarkably like something Mr. Service would have written, and Rick decides to surprise everyone and recite it at the concert. Kate, oddly enough, answers the notice about the lost ring. Willow’s instincts tell her it’s not Kate’s so she starts investigating. The concert is a big hit with Rick’s recitation of the new poem the highlight. Everyone is interested to find out where he got it. Kate listens to all the details of the discovery and Rick, not trusting her intentions, finds her at the cabin confiscating the poem into a plastic tube. All three kids end up on a raft they built, and inadvertently win a big raft race in their effort to get the poems to Park officials. When it’s discovered that Kate has disappeared, the truth is revealed. In a visit to Casey’s grandmother, the grandmother tells a story about losing a gold nugget ring when she was a child; a loss she’s always regretted. Willow is dumbfounded and gives her the ring. Casey’s grandmother is very moved and very grateful

  • Adventure Net: The Klondike Ring
    Whitecap Books, 2003
  • Dance of the Stones: The Summer of Magic Quartet, Book 2
    Orca Book Publishers, 2003
  • The Most Beautiful Kite in the World
    Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, 2003
  • Solomon's Tree
    Orca Book Publishers, 2002
  • It's Raining, It's Pouring
    Orca Book Publishers, 2002
  • The White Horse Talisman: The Summer of Magic Quartet, Book 1
    Orca Book Publishers, 2002
  • Me and Mr. Mah
    Orca Book Publishers, 2000
  • Sarah May and the New Red Dress
    Orca Book Publishers, 2000
  • The Keeper and the Crows
    Orca Book Publishers, 2000
  • Adventure Net: The Silver Boulder
    Whitecap Books, 2000
  • Adventure Net: The Lost Sketch
    Whitecap Books, 2000
  • Phoebe and the Gypsy
    Orca Book Publishers, 1999
  • Island of My Own
    Beach Holme Pub Ltd; 0 edition, 1998
  • Finders Keepers
    Pr Porcepic Ltd, 1997
  • The Flavours of Victoria
    Orca Book Publishers, 1994
  • A World of Stories
    Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, 1991
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    Dance of the Stones: The Summer of Magic Quartet, Book 2 (Orca Book Publishers, 2003)    

    In The White Horse Talisman, Chantel and Adam are visiting their British cousins, Holly and Owen, for the summer. When Chantel sees a shooting star streak through the sky and awaken the ancient magical horse that is carved into the downs, the four children are drawn into an adventure, guided by four Wise Ones, Ava, Myrddin, Equus and the Lady. The children set out to help the Great White Horse Equus find his mate and regain his magical talisman. But as the horse rises, so does the dragon. The age-old struggle between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel and Adam and endangers the quest.

    In Dance of the Stones, the four children are off on their second quest, this time to recover Ava’s circlet, buried eons ago in the Stone Circle of Avebury. In this story, Owen is the character chosen to be witness to the past with Ava’s guidance. The Dark Being has drawn closer and an evil wraith who hides beneath the stones has awakened. When Equus confronts the Dark Being and Ava is injured, the four children are left on their own to discover the ritual that will release the circlet. The future of their world as they know it depends on their success.

     
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    It's Raining, It's Pouring (Orca Book Publishers, 2002)  

     

    Little Girl is bored and wants to play, but it’s raining. Her mother recites the nursery rhyme "It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed with a cold in his head and he didn’t get up in the morning." Little Girl asks why he’s in bed with a cold and puts on her boots and her rain gear to find out. She makes her way to the basement to get the ladder, climbs through the basement ceiling, through the kitchen ceiling, and out through the roof of the house to the nearest thundercloud. In the cloud she finds the old man, a moaning groaning giant in bed with a cold. Finding he doesn’t have a mom to give him hot lemon and honey, she climbs down the ladder to get some. With a wheelbarrow full of hot drink, gingerbread cookies and a hot water bottle, she climbs back up the ladder. The giant immediately feels better after sipping the drink. The sun comes out. She quickly returns to her home, changes her clothes and runs out to play

     
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    Dance of the Stones
    It's Raining, It's Pouring
    The Klondike Ring
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