Fablehaven

I love to read good books. I have learned that my sister recommends the best books. I still have yet to learn the art of finding my own books and then recommending them to others, but I will master it someday! Anyway, Fablehaven is at the very top of my list of favorite books. It's written for just about any audience. I love it!!! If you haven't read it, read it!! it's great! It has all of the fairy tales, goblins, and witches you will ever need in any book.

I went to a Fall Into Books Literature Conference a couple weeks ago. It was AWESOME!!! I went because the author of Fablehaven would be there. Brandon Mull is a hilarious guy. He's pretty much a geek who really knows how to move words around. This is him.

When he was doing his keynote speech, he told us that he was crazy because he sits in his basement and imagines he's a 12 year old girl talking to centaurs, he's a geek because he imagines different worlds in his head, and he's a killer because people accuse him of killing characters. He then said that we had the great opportunity of listening to a geeky, crazy, killer. :) His laugh was also hilarious. He had that...well...geeky laugh. It made you laugh harder just hearing it.

His keynote was all answers to questions he would get from people about writing. To the question, "How do you want people to feel when reading your book?" he said this answered the question beautifully:

Mull has done other books, but the only other one I've read is this one. It's a children's story about a boy who decides his imaginary friend isn't cool anymore, so his imaginary friend becomes his "imaginary enemy." It's a really cute book and I recommend it to any book-collector!

The illustrator of Mull's books was there as well, Brandon Dorman. He was really funny as well. He is spectacular! He had his work up on a slide show, talked about how he became an illustrator (went to BYU-I, by the way!!!!!), and just had fun showing us pictures and telling us stories. He illustrated all of the Fablehaven books, The Candy Shop War (Brandon Mull), and Pingo.
This book, Halloween Night, was on sale at the convention. I read it and fell in love. It's the story "T'was the night before christmas" in Halloween form. It's the cleverest thing! I love Halloween, so this book just thrilled me. Then, the pictures were stunning (done by Brandon Dorman). I love it!!
The conference was awesome. I even got my mom's copy of the fifth Fablehaven signed. I got my own copy of the first three books recently, so I got my first one signed and it even says "Hi, Grace" from Brandon Mull. pretty cool. They're both really nice guys and very easy to talk to and they do a great job at what they love to do!!!