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E.L. signs at the Hoover Public Library.
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Award winning author sees movies...
From the
Educational Paperback Association
website...
"When I write a book, I more or less start a movie in my head, and there I was doing a re-run of what I had written. When I got to where Julian was telling Ethan about the B and B, I remembered that I had a story in my files--my mixed-up files--about a young man named Noah whose mother insists that he write his grandparents a bread-and-butter letter, a B and B letter. That made me remember another short story I had about a dog named Ginger that plays the part of Sandy in the play Annie. And that led me to another story about an Academic Bowl team.
"Before I had finished my walk, I realized that all those short stories were united by a single theme. Taken together, they reinforced one another, and the whole became more than the sum of the parts. I knew that kids would love meeting one character and then two and three and four, and I also knew--because I had learned it from them--that they would think that fitting all the stories together was part of the adventure."
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