Hannah & the Wild Woods

It’s spring break, and 14-year-old Hannah Anderson is glad to be spending it with the “Coast-Is-Clear” program – a group committed to cleaning Pacific Rim National Park’s beaches of debris leftover from the tragic Japanese tsunami of 2011. Soon after Hannah arrives on the west coast, Jack, her raven sidekick, finds a small object washed up in the surf: a strange glass ball marked with a glowing Japanese character. Immediately, unusual things start to happen, beginning with the arrival of the mysterious “Kimiko,” a Japanese girl with a secret past. Kimiko, it turns out, is a kitsune fox whose magic depends on the glass ball she lost in the tsunami. As Kimiko works alongside Hannah and the other members of her crew, she becomes increasingly unhappy with her life as an immortal kistsune and longs to join a family of humans. Can Hannah and her trickster raven help to make it happen?

AUTHOR

Carol Anne Shaw

Carol Anne Shaw is an art teacher at a private boarding school where she enjoys being able to assist young artists on their creative journeys. She has found that her students’ conversations have provided inspiration for her characters in both her first novel, Hannah & the Spindle Whorl, and its sequel, Hannah & the Salish Sea. Carol Anne shares her home in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island with her artist/sculptor husband and her beagle, Eddie. She has two grown sons. Please visit her at www.carolanneshaw.com.

Reviews

“Fans of the earlier books will appreciate spending more time with the smart, spunky Hannah who becomes a stronger heroine with every installment. . . Recommended.” – CM Magazine
“Everything Hannah feels and does is embedded in. . .caring and concern and she is a totally believable character. She wants to be good and do good but is still human with her distress, frustration, suspicion, worry and anger. But by tying in elements of Japanese folklore, specifically the kitsune and Okami, Carol Anne Shaw makes Hannah and the Wild Woods into a bigger story of finding oneself and one’s family and accepting mistakes as learning steps.” – CanLit for Little Canadians
“Hannah is an appealing character that the reader can empathize with, and keeps you involved in her story as she comes to terms with the various facets of life as her story unfolds. E for excellent.” – Resource Links