Who cares about some mad Maestro living in the woods? Who cares about who inherits the Maestro's house after he dies? And how the fucking HELL did this piece of shit get an award? This is taking the mickey when there are works of real talent out there such as Divergent, Blood Red Road, Gone and of course the Wolf Brother series which are raw talent when it comes to wilderness survival. There was a bit of wilderness survival in the first quarter, but as soon as Burl met that fucking Maestro things seriously went down hill. The above images are just the beginning of how fucking SHIT I found this book. The blurb and title promised a story of survival in the wilderness not all that legal bullshit about who gets to own that stupid Maestro's house. It takes a lot to make me close a book especially when the blurb was so intriguing. This is the first book I've given up on since I was little. I had even more high expectations knowing this story was set in Canada. Finding aid no.Literally zero fucking stars! I had such high expectations for this book as I thought it would be like the Wolf Brother series. His books have been translated into French, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. His many awards also include the Seal First Novel Award for Odds End (1981) the Arthur Ellis Award (Best Crime Writers of Canada) and the Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America) in 2000 for The Boy in the Burning House (2000). He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Text : in 1993 for Some of the Kinder Planets and in 1995 for The Maestro. He is best known for for his fiction as well as his critical writing and teaching in the field of children literature. Tim Wynne-Jones is the author of numerous short-stories, picture books and novels.

He is a Faculty Member of the University of Vermont's writing for children & young adults programs, Children Literature New England. He has thought children literature courses at the University of Ottawa. Columnist for the Globe and Mail from 1985 to 1988, he became editor at Red Deer College Press from 1989 to 1996.

He started his career as a full-time writer in 1980.

He performed as a professional musician and worked in visual art and design. He studied architecture at the University of Waterloo (B.A., 1975) and York University (M.F.A. He is the son of Sydney Wynne-Jones and Sheila Beryce and is married to Amanda Lewis. Wynne-Jones, Tim, 1948- : Writer of childrens' books, teacher, journalist and songwriter, Tim Wynne-Jones was born in Bromborough, Cheshire, Great Britain, in 1948.

The maestro by tim wynne jones