{"id":90,"date":"2020-07-11T23:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T23:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynobrown.com\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2024-02-15T05:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:29:18","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynobrown.com\/?page_id=90","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"90\" class=\"elementor elementor-90\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-68633130 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"68633130\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78d71d6a\" data-id=\"78d71d6a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50cc4254 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"50cc4254\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7626-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"343\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Brown\u2019s childhood was spent being enamored by the outdoors and the animals that called it home. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that the content of her books tend to have non-human main characters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always shy growing up,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAs a kid, learning about and being around animals just made sense. An animal is just itself, and doing the best it can to survive in its world. If it can have a little fun and enjoy itself while it&#8217;s at it, then it does that. The first \u201creal\u201d book I remember loving was\u00a0<em>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH<\/em>. My third grade teacher, Mr. Gray, read it to us. I was hooked, and it started a love of reading that has persisted to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Finding books with animal protagonists was no walk in the park, however. After racing through books like Richard Adam\u2019s\u00a0<em>Watership Down<\/em>, Kathryn Lasky&#8217;s <em>Guardians of Ga&#8217;Hoole<\/em>,\u00a0and Kenneth Oppel\u2019s\u00a0<em>Silverwing<\/em>\u00a0series, Brown recalls the hilarious moment the local librarian threw her hands up in surrender when asked for more recommendations.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d finish a series I really enjoyed, and then it would be a while before I found another one I really liked,\u201d Brown said. &#8220;I knew that I wanted to create books that could tell a great story, while also including elements I found fun to write and research. A lot of my work focuses on these unique creatures, and I have a blast figuring out how to keep them believable while retaining a fantastical element. I hope younger readers who are like my past self find something special in the works, and that my older readers have just as good of a time consuming my work as I do creating it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Kathryn Brown\u2019s childhood was spent being enamored by the outdoors and the animals that called it home. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that the content of her books tend to have non-human main characters. \u201cI was always shy growing up,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAs a kid, learning about and being around animals just made sense. 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