Where the imagination lives

There’s a little room in your head which has a door with no handle. It is fed by everything you remember about what you have thought, done, everybody you’ve met, everything you’ve read.

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Susan Cooper

Children’s Author

Meet Newbery winner Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising series) whose work weaves rich language and contemporary issues with fantasy, history, and traditional literature to create compelling, timeless picture books and young adult novels. In our interview, Cooper talks about becoming a writer as a young child, her early years as a journalist, her lifelong fascination with myths and legends, and where she believes the imagination lives.

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