'Carla Gunn's prose crackles with energy in this illuminating, heart-gripping novel. 'Amphibian is a sweet and smart book for optimists of any age, and Phin the perfect eco hero for intelligent readers everywhere.' NOW sense of the absurd drawn always from the grim facts is the sort that trumps despair with healing mirth.' Globe and Mail 'Carla Gunn has fashioned (more likely been possessed by) an irresistible voice. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that a quarter of all Earth's mammals are on the Red List of Threatened Species? So, when a White's tree frog ends up in an aquarium in his fourth-grade classroom, it's the last straw, and he and his best friend, Bird, are spurred to action. To make it to-infinity worse, he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him.
Or why his parents can't live together - after all, when other mate-for-life animals have a fight, it's not like one of them just packs his bags and leaves the country. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why waste-of-flesh Lyle always picks on him. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time.
Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region)Ī Globe and Mail Top Five First Fiction Title of 2009
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