Your purchase helps support NPR programming. It was a nice way for us to get an undercurrent of seriousness into a beautiful story about a boy and his dog.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Dog Who Lost His Bark Author Eoin Colfer and P. and I thought this would be a lovely way to get the importance. So then I started to look up music therapy which is a very powerful tool. my father died, I used to just listen to the songs that he listened to a lot and it really helped me through it. The absolute best compliment you can get : 'Yes, I'm reading to this to my kids as a family, but when they go to sleep I keep sneaking out and reading the next chapter on my own.' I love to hear that because it's kind of mischievous but it also means that the parents are enjoying the story, too.Ĭolfer: I've always been very affected by music.

and they're really enjoying it as a family. So they're reading it to kids who are maybe a little too young to read it themselves. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.Colfer: I'm getting a lot of letters from people who are using it as their nighttime story. Hopefully neither of these will happen anytime soon. He says, “I will keep writing until people stop reading or I run out of ideas. Then in 2001 the first Artemis Fowl book was published and he was able to resign from teaching and concentrate fully on writing. A sequel followed in 1999, followed by some other books (see below). His first book, Benny and Omar, was published in 1998, based on his experiences in Tunisia it has since been translated into many languages. He married in 1991 and he and his wife spent about 4 years between 19 working in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. He first developed an interest in writing in primary (elementary) school with gripping Viking stories inspired by history he was learning in school at the time!Īfter leaving school he got his degree from Dublin university and qualified as a primary school teacher, returning to work in Wexford. Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen) was born in Wexford on the South-East coast of Ireland in 1965, where he and his four brothers were brought up by his father (an elementary school teacher, historian and artist of note) and mother (a drama teacher).

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