About the Author

Theodore Taylor wrote several award-winning books, including The Cay, which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and was made into a movie. He began his writing career at the age of thirteen and continued on from there—books, articles, scripts—often several projects at once. He passed away in 2006 surrounded by his family, his books, and years of wonderful memories.

Reviews

Praise for The Cay:
 
“Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story…The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book…The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon.”—New York Times Book Review
 
“A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation…At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile—as Timothy would say, ‘outrageous good.’”—Kirkus Reviews
 
* “Fully realized setting…artful, unobtrusive use of dialect…the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children’s literature.”—School Library Journal, Starred
 
“Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling.”—Saturday Review
 
“A tense and moving experience in reading.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man.”—Booklist
 
"This is one of the best survival stories since Robinson Crusoe."—The Washington Star

· A New York Times Best Book of the Year
· A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
· A Horn Book Honor Book
· An American Library Association Notable Book
· A Publishers Weekly Children’s Book to Remember
· A Child Study Association’s Pick of Children’s Books of the Year
· Jane Addams Book Award
· Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
· Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award
· Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award
· Woodward School Annual Book Award
· Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine

Praise for The Cay:

"Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story...The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book...The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon."-New York Times Book Review

"A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation...At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile-as Timothy would say, 'outrageous good.'"-Kirkus Reviews

* "Fully realized setting...artful, unobtrusive use of dialect...the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children's literature."-School Library Journal, Starred

"Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling."-Saturday Review

"A tense and moving experience in reading."-Publishers Weekly

"Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man."-Booklist

"This is one of the best survival stories since Robinson Crusoe."-The Washington Star

* A New York Times Best Book of the Year
* A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* A Horn Book Honor Book
* An American Library Association Notable Book
* A Publishers Weekly Children's Book to Remember
* A Child Study Association's Pick of Children's Books of the Year
* Jane Addams Book Award
* Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
* Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award
* Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award
* Woodward School Annual Book Award
* Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine