NHibernate QuerySyntaxException

I am following along with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series and am running into a strange NHibernate Exception.

NHibernate.Hql.Ast.ANTLR.QuerySyntaxException:
Exception of type
'Antlr.Runtime.NoViableAltException' was thrown.
[select from DataTransfer.Person p where p.FirstName=:fn].

I have deviated from the Screencast Series in the following ways:

1. Running against an MS SQL Server Compact Database
2. I am using MSTest instead of MbUnit

I've tried any number of combination of queries always with the same result. My present CreateQuery syntax

public IList<Person> GetPersonsByFirstName(string firstName)
{
    ISession session = GetSession();

    return session.CreateQuery("select from Person p " +
        "where p.FirstName=:fn").SetString("fn", firstName)
        .List<Person>();
}

While not a direct query this method works

public Person GetPersonById(int personId)
{
    ISession session = GetSession();
    return session.Get<Person>(personId);
}

My hibernate.cfg.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
  <session-factory name="BookDb">
    <property name="connection.provider">NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider</property>
    <property name="connection.driver_class">NHibernate.Driver.SqlServerCeDriver</property>
    <property name="dialect">NHibernate.Dialect.MsSqlCeDialect</property>
    <property name="connection.connection_string">Data Source=C:\Code\BookCollection\DataAccessLayer\BookCollectionDb.sdf</property>
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <property name="proxyfactory.factory_class">NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFacto