Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Did you know that Coal Station isn't actually a real place? Ruth White took the name from coal trucks from all over the county that deliver coal to the railway station. (Source.)
Ruth White didn't get the idea for Belle Prater's Boy from real life—she actually got it from a creepy comic book she read where a man walked into a field and suddenly vanished. (Source.)
Readers of Belle Prater's Boy sure had to wait a while for the sequel. The Search For Belle Prater wasn't published until 2005, a whopping nine years after the first book came out. (Source.)