This sounds spooky, but it always happens to me, that the boy himself told me his name.
Click play to listen. Recorded on October 25, 2003.
Beloved children’s novelist and two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry accepts the 2003 Chicago Tribune Prize for Young Adult Fiction for her novel The Silent Boy. She reads selections from the novel, explaining her desire to situate its plot around a certain core of her family’s personal photographs. She recounts her methods of assuring a target audience above a certain age, researching historical facts via family anecdotes, and communicating with her characters.
