Matthew Tobin Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M.T. Andersonis an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young-adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "Octavian Nothing" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era Boston. Anderson is known for using wit and sarcasm in his stories, as well as advocating that young adults are capable of mature comprehension...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 November 1968
CountryUnited States of America
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken
I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.
You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.