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The Prism Blade is now out from Dundurn Press.

On June 16, 2008, I signed copies of The Prism Blade at Book Expo in Toronto.

Article about the Bow family of writers by Barbara Aggerholm in the Record of Waterloo Region.

About the author

Books in English

Novels in German

What I love to read

Short stories

I am a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. My latest book, The Prism Blade, is now available in bookstores. It's Book 2 in the Passage to Mythrin series, published by Dundurn Press of Toronto. More details here. 

Book 1 in the series is The Ruby Kingdom. Book 3, The Starry Window, is in progress. 

Other books . . . 

The Bone Flute was published by Orca Book Publishers in fall 2004 and was nominated for the 2006 Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award, as well as for the 2007 Red Cedar Award. The Bone Flute was also named one of the OLA's "Best Bets" for Canadian children's books published in 2004.

You can also find my first English-language novel, The Spiral Maze, in public libraries and good bookstores. 

Nine other novels have been published in German by Cora Verlag, a publisher in Hamburg, Germany, and some of them can be found in public libraries. (Click on the links at left for more information.) Chimpanzee Rescue, a non-fiction book, is part of the Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife series by Firefly Books. It won the  2004 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Honor award.

You can write to me at 99 Krug Street, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 2X8.  Or send e-mail to pabow@gto.net 

Updated June 17, 2008

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