Kathleen McDonnell

A baby boomer parent of two “Echo” generation children, Kathleen McDonnell is an award-winning author and playwright of adult and children’s literature including The Notherland Journeys series – The Nordlings, The Shining World, and The Songweavers – and Honey, We Lost the Kids. Born in Chicago, Kathleen lives in Toronto where she is a frequent contributor to the CBC and other media.

Visit her website: www.kathleenmcdonnell.com

Previous titles by Kathleen

The Songweavers

Has Peggy destroyed the imaginative universe she created? As a teenager, Peggy has plenty on her mind without having to take care of Notherland, the imaginary world she created as a child. When ...

1212: Year of the Journey

In a world where thousands are dying over matters of religion, where do you go? What do you believe? Who do you put your own faith in? These questions, so relevant to growing up in 2006, are als...

Honey, We Lost the Kids

Chalmer's Award-winning writer Kathleen McDonnell follows her acclaimed Kid Culture: Children, Adults and Popular Culture with a challenge to anyone parenting today. Parent alert: Honey, We Lost...

Putting On a Show

An award-winning children's playwright tells all for kids. Using four of her original plays, which have toured in Canada and the United States, as the center piece, she talks about the history of t...

The Shining World

The Shining World is the second book in a projected trilogy, and the sequel to The Nordlings, Kathleen McDonnell's fantasy-adventure novel published in 1999. When the story opens, six...

Not An Easy Choice

If most North Americans admit they support a woman's right to an abortion, why does the controversy still rage? Are there issues that the pro-choice movement hasn't addressedâ issues that rem...

The Nordlings

Readers "aged 9 to 13 will appreciate the pluckiness of Notherland's inhabitants,and the rescue mission makes for an adventure-filled plot ... Peggy is a likeable and compelling character and he...

Kid Culture

"McDonnell's treatment of this issue is fascinating." The Montreal Gazette "Kid Culture blows a very fresh breeze through our uptight assumptions about all the harm pop culture is doing t...

Ezzie's Emerald

By the same author as The Nordlings. Most of the time Ezzie is very happy. She has good friends and a loving family who never make her feel that she is "fat." But sometimes schoolmates te...