![]() "I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. "I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure," he says. NPR's Backseat Book Club 'Seedfolks,' By Paul Fleischman That's a riddle that the kids all solve in a different way." Above a door on the opposite wall, there's a large sign that says, "Cross the room without setting foot on a blue or black square."ĭescribing the challenge before them, Stewart says, "It appears that it would be impossible to cross the room without stepping on blue or black, since the yellow parts are so widely scattered that it would be difficult to jump from one to the other. ![]() So once I started asking who these kids are, why they're taking these difficult tests, it sort of led to the notion that they were being recruited for a difficult mission that only children could accomplish."Įarly in The Mysterious Benedict Society, the children are led into an empty room. ![]() "The first one was an image of a child - I didn't know yet if it was a boy or a girl - taking an incredibly difficult test that was more than it appeared to be," the author says. Learn more about Trenton Lee Stewart - including why kids used to call him "Superduck" - at his website.
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