![]() ![]() So how do you write an optimistic book for kids growing up in such a world? I needed to find an answer if I was to continue to write, and my answer to myself was that I still believed in the individual kids. ![]() It seemed to me, that while people are rightly concerned about things like climate change, depletion of ocean habitats, the destruction of the rain forest, giant islands of plastic garbage, etc., that they might be missing the bigger picture that all these things were just the inevitable result of a world with seven billion people, and that as long as human population continues to increase, all these problems, and more, would only get worse. It was reported that world population recently had grown past seven billion, more than double what it was just a half century ago. However, when I set out to write my newest book, I had lost my own sense of optimism. If there is a message that links my work, it is that if you stay true to yourself, and persevere, you will succeed. I appreciate the sense of wonder and earnestness of kids, their joys and sorrows, and all my books have always been very optimistic. My main characters haven’t become jaded or stuck in their ways, as adult characters might. One of the reasons I’ve been writing for children for almost forty years is because I love that the world is still wide open to them. The inspiration for a novel usually has nothing to do with the story itself, but comes from a combination of other events and concerns of mine. ![]()
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