![]() The title character is especially interesting. An act of courage and compassion puts him in league with a trio of down-on-their-luck Norse gods (you'll have to forgive me if they were voiced by Hemsworth, Hiddleston, and especially Hopkins in my imagination) and sets him on his way from Midgard to Asgard and back again. Then winter refuses to pass into spring ("The cold never bothered me anyway!") and Odd leaves home for his father's abandoned work cottage. His woodcutter father dies and his mother remarries, leaving Odd unsure about his place in his family or his village. Odd is a 12-year-old Viking boy with a crippled leg (played in my internal cinema by a more subdued Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon). There's nothing particularly groundbreaking about OatFG's plot in fact, one of the things I liked best about it was its fodder for studying schema and making text-to-text connections, which is probably proof right there that you can take the English teacher out of the classroom but you can't make her stop being a nerd. Include in that category his lesser-known 2008 book Odd and the Frost Giants. He writes epic fantasy forĪdults, he writes lushly illustrated abecedarians - but his sweet spot,Īrguably, is spooky bildungsromans for the tween set (think Coraline ![]() Writing for children is harder than it looks, so I especiallyĪppreciate it when an adult fiction author can also write successfullyįor kids. ![]()
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