Welcome to my author’s page! Please scroll down to view my prospective PB and MG stories, all written by a wacky storyteller named Tony Canty.
Picture Books
Tug & Jet: Harbor homies
Detour to Jack’s house
AKIN'S ANTLERS
Tug is a tiny boat with a huge heart. But when his friend Jet crashes in the mountains, Tug struggles to save him. Tug learns he can’t do it alone and will need the whole harbor to help him brave the impossible—to fly!
The story of a sightseeing intergalactic being who makes a new friend after crashing into Jack’s backyard.
Akin, a young reindeer living on the tundra, is able to make lots of friends by acting like a snow goat or gluing pine cones to his head. However, he has one very big problem: he can’t grow antlers. Fortunately, Akin records this rough first year in his Rein-diary. Through all of his challenges, Akin will have to learn how to value his strengths instead of his weak points.
Middle Grade
TIFFIN G. AND THE SUNKEN SEA
EVY SMITS AND THE VULTURE CREW
Tiffin Gupta needs a little more luck than your average 11-year-old boy from India. His cruel uncle is planning to make him a street beggar with one less limb so Tiffin stows away on a ship heading out to the ocean. But things get much worse when the ship gets sucked through a sea portal and lands on a cursed island. In this new world, Tiffin and his crew will need to find all the clues (and defeat a seemingly endless supply of child-gulping creatures) to open the portal back to earth. Given Tiffin’s doomed life so far, this may be very wishful thinking.
10-year-old Evy Smits and her invention making crew are always itching to head to the junkyard to find scraps for their projects. But with her father recently passed, Evy struggles to believe in her abilities to better her community. When the town falls under some shady dealings by a greedy doctor, a mysterious man who lives under the bridge shows up to help. However, it’s up to Evy to use her resources to save the town around her.
