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100 Cupboards

We met up with author N.D. Wilson, who sets childrens fantasy books, 100 Cupboards, in America's heartland.







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" Says all fantasy novels have to take place in England sure they got their classics but now it's America's turn. We met up with doctor Andy Wilson who sets his kid's fantasy books in -- Looking back it is child had grown up and America's heartland other Andy Wilson concede now that he had a pretty good."

" I was a kid. -- crop dusters and we feel the beating down my friend. Climbing up in all the way up in the pigeon roost in the top of the his huge barn and it was a blast -- the great childhood and yet I was actually. Disappointment."

" Disappointed because this -- play really long for a magical adventure the kinda kids always seem to be having over in England. At least according to was -- books I didn't have a wardrobe Narnia. And I would never see Hobbits so when he up he decided to change all that by writing a magical children's book based in Kansas I really wanted to connect classic fantasy. You know middle earth Narnia style fantasy -- with the America. And so the 100 covered series was born in -- that follows a boy named Henry who discovers a strange static filled with hundred doors. Each leading to a different -- else. -- this fantasy there's also a hint realism behind those doors."

" Alternative history other worlds thought -- kind of thing but primarily on trying to connect to places that if kids started to research. If they started hunting down particular words locations -- using they would find the real stories real history these these locations are. Are just names words than made up."

" With the third book in the trilogy the -- king just released this series is one fans not only from America's heartland that all over the world. Something its author says he never expected."

" about that kid in the wheat fields with the BB -- That's you know -- the audience you know those right so. Funny happens in -- you know getting emails from people Hong Kong -- Turkey or South America that I wasn't on my radar when I was starting."

" But the most important thing. He believes that the little kidding -- is he used to be would have approved of his work."

" That kid that boy floating downstream. Yeah artists on the styrofoam and chasing the crop duster climb in the -- about board. --"

" Looks like a fun series with a 100 covered trilogy is available in bookstores now or online at Amazon.com."

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