Synopsis
The first in the Project Earthmend Series of environmentally conscious but enjoyable novels for kids who want to learn about how to save the Earth. When Tiger the Cat moves to Canberra with his owner Alexander, there are bound to be a few rough patches in settling in. The dogs next store are anything but friendly, and the nearby park is crawling with snakes and other creatures of the night. But Tiger makes friends with Wanda, the blue-tongued lizard and then finds himself wanting to become a Member of the Sacred Few, a group of magical frogs, actually extra-terrestrials in disguise. This crew has come to Earth on a mission to spread the word about the Great Danger, and the need to heal the planet of pollution and energy waste before it's too late. It's an adventure Tiger can't resist, filled with many surprises along the way. All he needs to do is be sure he won't miss out on his Cat Gourmet dinners along the way...
About the Author
David Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction, and Director of IP, an innovative print and digital publisher in Brisbane supported by the Australia Council. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards. His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier s Poetry Award. His book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. Other works are The Gallery, interactive multimedia; Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002; and Sharpened Knife, a multimedia murder mystery. IP released his novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and The Greenhouse Effect, a junior novel, was published by Lothian (Hachette) in 2004 and is now under development as an animated film with the support of MonkeyStack (Adelaide) and Cutting Edge (Brisbane). My Planets, a fictive memoir in multimedia, was developed with the Arterial Group (Brisbane) with a grant from Arts Queensland. His multimedia script, Paul & Vincent (IP Digital) was produced as a radio play by the ABC and as a theatre play by 4MBS Classical FM, based on his poetry book Letters We Never Sent. He s completed a full-length DVD film of Hemingway in Spain. Real Guns, a children s picture book illustrated by Irish artist Patrick Murphy, and a multimedia CD anthology, Rainshadows, representing 30 authors, were released in 2007, and Global Warming, a sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, was released in early 2008, followed by his latest novel Primary Instinct, a satire based on a fictitious Qld primary school. David has been writer-in-residence at a number of places, most recently Bundanon (the Arthur Boyd property) in 2007, and in Auckland, New Zealand at the Michael King Centre in 2008.
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