Too many cooks?

Not in the case of Click, written by an all-star cast of ten award-winning authors (David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones) who each contributed a chapter. Here's a blurb from the review on Teenreads.com:

The novel begins with Maggie and Jason, teenage siblings whose grandfather, world-renowned photographer George "Gee" Keane, has just passed away. To Jason, Gee has bequeathed a cache of photographs, a nearly living library of history that spans Gee's global career. Maggie receives a puzzle box with seven sea shells, one collected from each continent Gee visited, and the message, "Throw them all back." Their inheritances send Maggie and Jason on separate but determined quests that will lead them to discover more of who their grandfather was and who they themselves have yet to become.

I thought this book really worked, despite the different styles and approaches of the various authors (and in contrast to what the Teenreads reviewer thought). An additional bonus: proceeds from the book are being donated to Amnesty International.

Gee's camera reminded me of the fun I used to have with my father's old twin lens reflex camera. Since you are always looking down when you shoot the photo, people don't quite realize you are taking the picture. Makes it easier to get candids.