![]() ![]() He modeled the main fox characters after the behavior of actual foxes to make them less human-acting. So Heidicker massaged his idea to sidestep those objections. ![]() “Those kinds of books just were not going anywhere.” “No short story collections, no anthropomorphized characters and no monsters,” Heidicker said. ![]() But his agent warned him the idea violated three norms of children’s book publishing: “I set out to honor the old Berenstain Bears horror stories, like “Spooky Old Tree” and "Bears in the Night,” he said. “Scary Stories for Young Foxes,” illustrated by Junyi Wu, follows two fox kits through a world of monsters - a risky proposal at first, Heidicker said. Two years later, he finished “ Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower.” He’d spent a decade writing fiction for children and young adults before his first book, “ Cure for the Common Universe,” finally was published in 2016, he said. The prize was a long time coming for the 37-year-old author. Robocalls don’t usually come at 4:30 in the morning.” “Then I slowly raised my head from my pillow and said, 'Wait. “When my phone buzzed at 4:30, I instinctively rolled over and clicked it off,” Heidicker said. ![]()
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