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Author M.T. Anderson appearing in Newark, September 14th

Written on: August 17th, 2009 by: in News

Best-selling children’s author M.T. Anderson is coming to Delaware on Monday, September 14, and he better be ready for some challenging geography questions from his elementary school-aged readers.

Anderson’s upcoming book, Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware, features a highly fictionalized version of the First State in which the intrepid hero and his pals discover a hidden mountain range in exotic and mysterious lands near Ogletown. (There’s also something about Delaware being “cut off from the civilized world for untold years.”)

“We’re expecting a lively Q & A session,” said Annie Norman, director of Delaware Division of Libraries, which is sponsoring Anderson’s appearance. “M.T. Anderson is one of the most popular writers for children and young adults. This will be a great opportunity for young readers to learn more about his work, hear how he develops his ideas, and find out why he picked Delaware as the setting for this book!”

“Off the Page: An Afternoon with M.T. Anderson” will be held at the Trabant University Center Theatre on Main Street in Newark, at 4:30 p.m. Anderson’s presentation will include remarks, a Q&A session, and book signing.

M.T. Anderson is the author of Whales on Stilts; The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, which won the National Book Award; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves, which is a 2009 Printz Honor Book; The Game of Sunken Places; Burger Wuss; Thirsty; and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adults. He lives in Vermont and Boston, Massachusetts.

Anderson’s appearance is sponsored by Delaware Division of Libraries, Delaware Center for the Book in collaboration with the Education Resource Center (a division of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education), the IRA Student Literacy Council of UD, the Reading Council of Northern Delaware, and the Delaware School Library Media Association.