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Dear Bruce Coville,
We thought Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher is a magical story. We found it interesting that Tiamat is invisible to everyone except Jeremy and Mary Lou. Why did you make Tiamat invisible? We liked the ending because we thought Jeremy lost Tiamat forever, but he didn't! If you wrote Jeremy Thatcher 2 what would the book be about?
From: Aleksey, Ella, Joseph, Teresa, and Lilian
We thought Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher is a magical story. We found it interesting that Tiamat is invisible to everyone except Jeremy and Mary Lou. Why did you make Tiamat invisible? We liked the ending because we thought Jeremy lost Tiamat forever, but he didn't! If you wrote Jeremy Thatcher 2 what would the book be about?
From: Aleksey, Ella, Joseph, Teresa, and Lilian
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hey, Guys -
Really glad to know you enjoyed JEREMY THATCHER. I think out of my more than 100 books, that is the one that will last longest after I am gone!
I needed to make Tiamat invisible because of her great size. But I didn't do that until I found a precedent in dragon folklore. In the first version of the book that I sent to the editor she was only the size of a dog at the end of the story. The editor told me to go back and make it better! ;>
I have an idea for another book, but I think it would likely be an adult book. It would be that there is something wrong in the world of the dragons, and Jeremy, Ms. Priest, and at least three other dragon hatchers would have to go to the dragon world to help out.
BC
Really glad to know you enjoyed JEREMY THATCHER. I think out of my more than 100 books, that is the one that will last longest after I am gone!
I needed to make Tiamat invisible because of her great size. But I didn't do that until I found a precedent in dragon folklore. In the first version of the book that I sent to the editor she was only the size of a dog at the end of the story. The editor told me to go back and make it better! ;>
I have an idea for another book, but I think it would likely be an adult book. It would be that there is something wrong in the world of the dragons, and Jeremy, Ms. Priest, and at least three other dragon hatchers would have to go to the dragon world to help out.
BC