Maureen Crane Wartski -- YURI'S BRUSH WITH MAGIC

Author, Maureen Crane Wartski, talks about her newest book, YURI'S BRUSH WITH MAGIC from Sleepy Hollow Books. Order now at: www.sleepyhollowbooks.com Transcript of interview Raleigh Community TV [2010]: Maureen Crane Wartski talks about her new children's book, YURI'S BRUSH WITH MAGIC: "[In] this quilt, you can see the little tortoises -- excuse me, they are turtles -- not tortoises -- and they are swimming about. "The book that I am writing is a mid-grade novel, and it's called [Yuri's] Brush with Magic... and it involves a couple of youngsters whose mother is very ill, and so they have to spend a summer on Emerald Isle [NC], with an aunt they absolutely detest. This hated aunt is an artist and she creates wonderful pictures that come alive for the young girl -- they actually come alive on the canvas. Also on Emerald Isle, there is a nest of turtles -- loggerhead turtles -- and both of these kids become very... attached to his nest. It evolves together with their story. "So when I was writing this book, I began to make this quilt -- as a sort of celebration of the book itself. As you know, Loggerhead turtles are an endangered species. So the book has a bit of an ecological twist as well. "My favorite readership, I think, has to be mid-grade and young adult readers. They have a clarity, still. They still believe in wonders. They believe in magic. Their heads are not cluttered with the opinions and the trivia, and the...foolishness that adults seem to put in their brains ...



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