![]() ![]() She got her degree in education, and she taught a variety of groups of students. She became a teacher she went to college at the same time I went to college. My mother spent a little time teaching gifted & talented kids as well. So all those things kind of came together in writing a book about gifted & talented kids who have these kind of life-or-death stakes attached to their abilities to solve these problems. And I love that book, and I realized that I wanted a whole novel to be just like that chapter, in which there are these life-or-death stakes that pertain to this riddle contest. And in The Hobbit, there is a chapter in which Bilbo Baggins is under the mountain with the awful creature, Gollum, and they have a riddle contest with life-or-death stakes. And I always wanted to figure things out myself, so when I was a kid, I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books, in which you try to figure out the clues that the character himself had figured out. I was just always interested in characters who were able to figure things out. But I don’t know in what ways that fits into my books, necessarily, other than I was a good student and a fairly smart kid, and I had friends who were smart kids, and we liked to imagine our way into adventures – or, at least, I certainly did a lot of that. Trent Stewart: I was in gifted & talented classes when I was in school I guess that was my first exposure to the term. My wife is an educator who has worked with gifted & talented kids, and we were both wondering if you have any experience or background with gifted & talented children? All of these characters are extraordinarily gifted children. GeekDad: Let’s talk about the characters, particularly the four main characters (Reynie, Sticky, Kate, & Constance) who form the Society. Image courtesy of Little, Brown and Company. You can read Part I of the interview here. Below is the second part of our interview. Along with my daughter (Geek Young Lady), I had a chance to talk to author Trent Stewart about his popular series. Stewart recently announced a new novel, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages, to be released in the fall of 2019. Three books were published in The Mysterious Benedict Society series between 2007 – 2009, with a fourth novel, a prequel, released in 2012, and a few years later a companion book full of puzzles and riddles. Curtain, who is bent on controlling the world through a machine called the Whisperer that could manipulate the thoughts and memories of people. Benedict, recruits the young protagonists for a mission to help save the world from a dastardly villain called Mr. In 2007, Trenton Lee Stewart introduced readers to The Mysterious Benedict Society, a tale of adventure and intrigue featuring four young heroes, each with unique gifts. Image credit to Little, Brown and Company. ![]()
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