![]() It wasn’t just a setting, it was a friend. And with the sense of all that I grew up really feeling like nature was a friend. And then, when I was about ten, we moved out to Colorado and my parents bought a ranch, a quarter-horse ranch under the shadow of Pike’s Peak and great big blue skies so wide that made me feel like anything was possible. And lucky enough, for starters, to grow up in two wonderful places: one was a little apple orchard home in New England where we could still find Indian arrowheads. Think you were any different from kids today?īARRON: (LAUGHS) Well I can’t say whether I was different from kids today, but I can say that I was different from a lot of the kids around me. But first, I want to get an idea of what you were like as a kid yourself. And much of your work outside of writing also involves young people.ĬURWOOD: Of all ages, okay, and we’ll get to all that in a minute. ![]() Tom, welcome to Living on Earth.ĬURWOOD: Now, your books are geared towards young people, I think it’s fair to say. Barron, or Tom, as he’s known to his family and friends, joins me to talk about the latest of his ten novels: “The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy.” It’s the first book of a new trilogy. And readers might get so caught up in the action that they might not notice they’re also taking in some deep lessons on nature and ecology. His fantasy novels, set in the mythical time of Merlin, are packed with dragon fights and wizard riddles and epic battles against evil. Barron’s books, you might wonder why not. Books on the environment may not be on the top of kids’ reading lists these days, but to read one of T.A.
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