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![]() ![]() ![]() And then there was the book he’d written for fun while working at a library in Cincinnati: “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” First, there was “Flood Summer,” a serious piece of fiction that had been years in the works, sprung from two previously abandoned novels, one of which had morphed from an even earlier short story. (“Or if you are 11 or 12 years old, to be yourself.”)Īnd then, within a six-week span in 2005, he got word that two books he’d written had been sold. ![]() He explained that he’d be doing voices, and that “there is no cool way to read a children’s book to a roomful of adults - you understand that, I hope … You can’t be cool while this happens.” For that reason, he urged them to channel their inner 11- or 12-year-old. He told them that he was going to read to them as if he were reading a bedtime story to his own children. “And yet, I finally did that.”īefore he started reading from the latest installment in the series, the then-unpublished “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages,” Stewart again addressed the disparity between the present audience and the audience for whom he’d written the book. ![]() “The other thing that I never thought that I would do was return to the ‘Mysterious Benedict Society’ series,” he said, referring to the hit book series that had earned him international acclaim and a then-in-the-works television adaptation, which has since premiered on Disney Plus. ![]()
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