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C.V. Cook

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Salt Lake City, The United States
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March 2012


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Hello, all. This is Chris. I'm a writer, a father, a kids' soccer coach--I wear a whole lot of other hats too. One of the main loves of my life (other than my wife :)) is reading. I was lucky enough to be introduced to good science-fiction and fantasy novels as a child so science-fiction and fantasy have always been my favorite genres. Why those genres? I guess it is because they are totally unrestricted. No limit to where those genres can go, what ideas they can explore, where writers in those genres can take their readers. I currently write mainly Middle-Grade books. It was a fun age (9-14) when I was a kid, and it is fun to write for that age group. It is an age where the kids are old enough to understand so many things, but they are not...more


I was influenced by all kinds of wonderful, amazing books as a child. That got me thinking back to what those books were. Here’s just a few of them that come to mind. You can give a child no greater gift than the love of reading. What books had the biggest influence of you when you were growing up?


a wrinkle in time
Earthsea Cycle
Naria
Oz
The Sword of Shannara
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Choose Your Own Adventures

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Average rating: 4.29 · 7 ratings · 6 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
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