Fiction. Chosen by Jim Bartley of the Toronto Globe as one of the Top 5 first-fiction books of 2009. In AMPHIBIAN, we meet nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. He's obsessed with animals; it's practically all he talks about. He spends all his spare time watching the Green Channel and researching obscure facts on the internet or in books. And he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet and its other animals. So when his Grade 4 class gets a pet frog--a White's Tree Frog from Australia--it becomes the perfect focus for all Phin's worrying. Carla Gunn's work has been published in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and heard on CBC radio. Along with writing, she teaches psychology. This is her first novel.

Author Hometown: Fredericton, NB CAN



Reviews:
http://booksexy.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/amphibian-by-carla-gunn/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/amphibian-by-carla-gunn/article1179568/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/jim-bartleys-top-5/article1378815/
http://shelf-monkey.blogspot.com/2009/12/monkey-droppings-amphibian-by-carla.html