Today I share with you an interview I did with the author Nancy Bo Flood. (Pictured at right)NBF - Nancy Bo Flood
C - Callista
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
About the Book
C: What made you want to create this book? Were you filling a need or writing about what you like or something else perhaps?
NBF: I wrote the book because I find the desert incredibly beautiful and wondrous in its stark, rugged landscape. I hoped to bring the beauty and wonder of the geology of the desert to young readers.
C: Did you consult with other people or even experts while you wrote this book? If so, Who?
NBF: All the information in Sand to Stone is accurate. I consulted with geologists and anthropologists. Besides talking with them and also asking them to review the text, I read many books about desert geology, sandstone, the animals, plants and people that live and thrive in the high desert climate. I even read books about volcanoes because we have many "sleeping" volcanoes in this area of the desert.
C: What's your favourite part of the book?
NBF: My favorite part - "You began as one tiny cell, as small as a grain of sand. From one cell, you became two, then four. Now you are made of million of connected cells. From one tiny cell, you became a person. From one grain of sand, I became a mountain." I do love that comparison!
C: What one thing do you hope readers will take away from Sand to Stone and Back Again?
NBF: Everything in our world continues to change. Change is often a cycle of building, crumbling and rebuilding. This is true for rocks as well as people.
C: How long was it between when you first started writing this book and when you were first published?
NBF: I began writing this book five years ago after several years of hiking and camping in the desert. I love being in a steep-sided canyon with only ravens and sage brush. Such silence! Perhaps a mountain lion is watching me and following my tracks. That has happened.
About the Author
C: What kinds of books do you read in your spare time?
NBF: I read all sorts of books. I especially like poetry for children that describes nature or is funny. I like historical fiction as well as nonfiction.
C: Have you thought about your next book yet?
NBF: My new projects include an alphabet books about rocks, a silly but true book about fungi (without mushrooms our world would not survive!), and a novel about a Navajo girl whose sisters joins the army and goes to fight in Iraq. My newest and first novel just came out - Warriors in the Crossfire - a story about boys surviving the invasion of their island, Saipan, in the western Pacific during World War II.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions Nancy. I can't wait to see your rock alphabet book. I love rocks!
You can also find some teacher/student activities that go with the book at Simple Saturday (scroll down) but they will also be available at Nancy Bo Flood's website by the end of the week.
Visit Nancy Bo Flood.
Visit the other bloggers in this book tour:
SMS Book Reviews, Never Jam Today, SmallWorld Reads, Our Big Earth Media Co., Whispers of Dawn, Cafe of Dreams, The Hungry Readers, My Own Little Corner of the World, Dolce Bellezza, KidzBookBuzz.com
Buy Sand to Stone and Back Again from Amazon.com and support KidsBookBuzz!
