Curtis Parkinson

Curtis Parkinson

Curtis Parkinson grew up in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in chemical engineering and worked in South America and in Canada for many years. Then he moved to the Caribbean to live on a sailboat and to write, a lifelong dream. As Curtis says, "Many rejections later, the cat fell off the boat one night, and the cat's story became my first book, Tom Foolery."

More picture books and short stories followed, then five young adult novels.

Curtis's first novel was Storm-Blast, the story of three lost teens adrift in the vast Caribbean Sea. Next came Sea Chase, a tale of a boy's desperate search for his father, missing from their sailboat in the night. Both were nominated for…

Man Overboard!

Man Overboard!

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The Castle on Deadman's Island Death in Kingsport

Death in Kingsport

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Sea Chase

Sea Chase

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Storm-blast

Storm-blast

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