Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Author Geraldine McCaughrean based her character, Titus, on the actor who played historical character in a TV series called The Last Place on Earth—the same show that Sym watches in the story.
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McCaughrean counts Tonto (the Lone Ranger's companion) among her childhood heroes.
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The author of The White Darkness has written around 160 books. One of them is free and online for anyone to read. Cool, right? It's called A Thousand Kinds of Ugly, and it's an adaptation of a Greek myth.
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Geraldine McCaughrean's favorite word is euphonious and her greatest fear is spiders, in case you were wondering.
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