Ask the Author: Angus Fletcher
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Angus Fletcher
I’ll out myself as a lifelong nerd by revealing that the original idea for Wonderworks came when I was about five years old and my dad was reading me Watership Down as a bedtime story. I was absolutely enchanted, and I wanted to know: how could those inert little ink squiggles on the book’s printed page pop my mind with living color?
Ever since then, I’ve wondered: How do books do it? What’s the secret to the way they work? And my curiosity built as I went through middle school and high school and college, and discovered literary miracles like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. And all that time, I could find books that explained the cogs and gears of satellites and radios and refrigerators and airplanes and everything else. But I couldn’t find a book that explained how poems or novels or films did the remarkable things that they did to my head.
So I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to find that book someday?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn how the wonder works?
Ever since then, I’ve wondered: How do books do it? What’s the secret to the way they work? And my curiosity built as I went through middle school and high school and college, and discovered literary miracles like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. And all that time, I could find books that explained the cogs and gears of satellites and radios and refrigerators and airplanes and everything else. But I couldn’t find a book that explained how poems or novels or films did the remarkable things that they did to my head.
So I thought, wouldn’t it be wonderful to find that book someday?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn how the wonder works?
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