Secret City Inc – Secret Admirers 2015
Auction Ends: May 15, 2015 11:59 PM EDT

Books

Signed Copy of Firstborn by Tor Seidler

Item Number
190
Estimated Value
90 USD
Opening Bid
30 USD

Item Description

A young wolf seeks the bravery to be himself in this lyrical homage to challenging societal stereotypes, from the author of National Book Award Finalist Mean Margaret and The Wainscott Weasel.

Already garnering major attention for this brand new book and off the charts reviews, Tor Seidler has proven himself again and again as a brilliant children's book author. In his own words...

When I was little, my stepfather told me and my older brother wonderful bedtime stories. His made-up characters were animals with traits remarkably like ours (the rabbit was a sore loser like me, the long-horned steer a slob like my brother). My brother was also a good storyteller, spinning yarns to entertain me in the morning before our parents woke up. In fact, I was surrounded by storytelling.

Our parents made a deal with us that if we read a book, they would buy us a new one, and so, being acquisitive, I read voraciously. Plus, there was theater galore. In Burlington, Vermont, where we lived till I was eleven, my stepfather was head of the drama department at the University, where he directed all sorts of plays, from musical comedies to Greek tragedies. In the summers he started a professional Shakespeare Festival, and later, when we moved to Seattle, Washington, he founded a theater for contemporary plays. So my developing an interest in storytelling probably wasn’t all that surprising. I studied literature at Stanford University and then made my way to New York City to try my hand at writing....