The best books about Prince Edward Island

Our book about this single, triple-named historic site across the harbor from Charlottetown, PEI, presents multiple stories. As Skmaqn, the location was long known to the Mi’kmaq, Prince Edward Island’s Indigenous people. As Port-la-Joye, it became the first permanent European settlement on Île Saint-Jean (PEI) in 1720. French and Mi’kmaq leaders met there to renew their friendship and military alliance. Then, in 1758, the British proceeded to erect Fort Amherst and begin a mass removal of the French and Acadian population.

Nearly half of the Acadians shipped to France perished due to onboard illnesses and shipwrecks. Finally, this area was the headquarters for the Island-changing survey led by British engineer, Samuel Holland. Richly illustrated, including art specially created for this publication, Ancient Land, New Land presents PEI’s early history in a fresh new way.

This book is available here.

Our book about this single, triple-named historic site across the harbor from Charlottetown, PEI, presents multiple stories. As Skmaqn, the location was long known to the Mi’kmaq, Prince Edward Island’s Indigenous people. As Port-la-Joye, it became the first permanent European settlement on Île Saint-Jean (PEI) in 1720. French and Mi’kmaq leaders met there to renew their friendship and military alliance. Then, in 1758, the British proceeded to erect Fort Amherst and begin a mass removal of the French and Acadian population.

Nearly half of the Acadians shipped to France perished due to onboard illnesses and shipwrecks. Finally, this area was the headquarters for the Island-changing survey led by British engineer, Samuel Holland. Richly illustrated, including art specially created for this publication, Ancient Land, New Land presents PEI’s early history in a fresh new way.

This book is available here.

Our book about this single, triple-named historic site across the harbor from Charlottetown, PEI, presents multiple stories. As Skmaqn, the location was long known to the Mi’kmaq, Prince Edward Island’s Indigenous people. As Port-la-Joye, it became the first permanent European settlement on Île Saint-Jean (PEI) in 1720. French and Mi’kmaq leaders met there to renew their friendship and military alliance. Then, in 1758, the British proceeded to erect Fort Amherst and begin a mass removal of the French and Acadian population.

Nearly half of the Acadians shipped to France perished due to onboard illnesses and shipwrecks. Finally, this area was the headquarters for the Island-changing survey led by British engineer, Samuel Holland. Richly illustrated, including art specially created for this publication, Ancient Land, New Land presents PEI’s early history in a fresh new way.

This book is available here.

Our book about this single, triple-named historic site across the harbor from Charlottetown, PEI, presents multiple stories. As Skmaqn, the location was long known to the Mi’kmaq, Prince Edward Island’s Indigenous people. As Port-la-Joye, it became the first permanent European settlement on Île Saint-Jean (PEI) in 1720. French and Mi’kmaq leaders met there to renew their friendship and military alliance. Then, in 1758, the British proceeded to erect Fort Amherst and begin a mass removal of the French and Acadian population.

Nearly half of the Acadians shipped to France perished due to onboard illnesses and shipwrecks. Finally, this area was the headquarters for the Island-changing survey led by British engineer, Samuel Holland. Richly illustrated, including art specially created for this publication, Ancient Land, New Land presents PEI’s early history in a fresh new way.

This book is available here.

Our book about this single, triple-named historic site across the harbor from Charlottetown, PEI, presents multiple stories. As Skmaqn, the location was long known to the Mi’kmaq, Prince Edward Island’s Indigenous people. As Port-la-Joye, it became the first permanent European settlement on Île Saint-Jean (PEI) in 1720. French and Mi’kmaq leaders met there to renew their friendship and military alliance. Then, in 1758, the British proceeded to erect Fort Amherst and begin a mass removal of the French and Acadian population.

Nearly half of the Acadians shipped to France perished due to onboard illnesses and shipwrecks. Finally, this area was the headquarters for the Island-changing survey led by British engineer, Samuel Holland. Richly illustrated, including art specially created for this publication, Ancient Land, New Land presents PEI’s early history in a fresh new way.

This book is available here.

The Hat presents the story of the 1755 Acadian Deportation from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, in a fresh, 21st-century way. Readers are not told—until the Afterword— where and when the action is taking place, nor by whom or to whom. Everything that happens is seen through the eyes of two central characters, 14-year-old Marie and 10-year-old Charles. The sister and brother show determination and perseverance as they deal with an incredibly difficult situation. Though based on a tragedy, the story is uplifting and inspiring. In the Afterword, readers discover the historical details behind the story they have just read.

In 1920, Annabeth De Lacy's father is appointed landlord of Galway Parish in Ireland. Annabeth convinces her father to arrange an apprenticeship for her with the Jennings family--descendants of the creator of the famed Claddagh Ring. Stephen Jennings longs to do anything other than run his family's jewelry shop. Having had his heart broken, he no longer believes in love and is weary of peddling the "lies" the Claddagh Ring promises.

Meanwhile, as the war for Irish independence gains strength, many locals resent the De Lacys and decide to take things into their own hands to display their displeasure. As events take a dangerous turn for Annabeth and her family, she and Stephen begin to see that perhaps the "other side" isn't quite as barbaric and uncultured as they'd been led to believe.

The extraordinary adventures of an extraordinary book.

Entitled is a charming, humorous novel told from the perspective of a book seeking to find a home. As it is read, misplaced, loaned, and abandoned, our book, like its Readers, discovers love and heartbreak, loneliness and friendship, and ultimately becomes the author of its own journey. In the end, Entitled reveals the pull between the story we are born with and the one we wish to create for ourselves.

When a deathbed confession leads RCMP Constable Jasper Nelson to discover the existence of his illegitimate sister, his curiosity is piqued and he sets out to find her. He locates the young woman a year later where he least expects to, within the police force itself. 

As the geographical distance separating them becomes unbearable, Nelson obtains a transfer from Vancouver to the Inuvik detachment where he partners with his hardy sibling Heidi Finlay to investigate criminal activity and trauma in the High Arctic. Inspired by actual events, On Duty is a series of cases narrated by the Mounties themselves; through Nelson’s refined prose and Finlay’s no-nonsense reporting, a portrait of human nature emerges, emphasizing the possibility—and need—for divine redemption.

My book is a graphic novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby, the classic Jazz Age story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. My version is a faithful, yet modern adaptation meant to appeal to fans of classic as well as those new to the story. I painted it in lush watercolors and tried to emphasize the extravagance, beauty, and mystery of Fitzgerald's world.  

I had particular fun with Fitzgerald’s descriptive language and beautiful metaphors which I took to their literal extremes. For instance, when Fitzgerald described a party guest as resembling an orchid, I drew her as a blossoming orchid. Party guests flit around on wings with trays of champagne floating through the air.