"My last novel for young readers featured two homeless teenagers living rough on the streets of Toronto. They get into all manner of scrapes but manage, eventually, to work things out – get on with life. Blink & Caution is a work of fiction; homelessness is not. Nor is it limited to our major cities. And kids who have nowhere to live do not always have the resources to make it without our help. It’s tough out there and a place to sleep at night is not the only problem; there’s the waking up each morning to another day of nowhere to go, of one day bleeding into the next without any clear sense of Forward and with Backward nipping at your heels. Living hand to mouth, day to day, a kid cannot really hope to get a grip on the idea of a future. That’s where Cornerstone Landing comes in. It’s not just about a roof over a kid’s head it’s about hope. It’s about getting a leg up: meeting the future head on, with the skills and wherewithal to take the first and then the next big step. I urge you to help out in any way you can. Our kids are the future, our most important resource."
Tim Wynne-Jones, O.C.
-- Two-time Governor General’s Award winner, and Officer of the Order of Canada