Imagination is what saves Belinda, abducted and locked in an attic and watched over by hideous Nursemaid Gulch. But is it enough to reunite the twelve-year-old with her parents? Described as a gothic-comic thriller, Belinda and the Dustbunnys (Hodgepog $12.95) is by UBC writing teacher Madeline Sonik after the "profoundly affecting"; disappearance of Victoria's Michael Dunahee. All author royalties to be donated to Child Find. Illustrations are by Grania Bridal, a surfer living in Sooke. 0-9730831-4-X

[BCBW Summer 2004]