When was will hobbs born

Sign In. Get Bearstone from Amazon. View the Study Pack. Order our Bearstone Short Guide. About the Author. Social Sensitivity. Literary Qualities. Themes and Characters. Topics for Discussion. Ideas for Reports and Papers. That's the deal. For about six hours a day he commits himself to the task of putting something on paper, and, he once explained in an interview for Authors and Artists for Young Adults AAYA , "I owe at least three books, especially Beardance, to that little guy.

I might have given up if it hadn't been for my deal with the pterodactyl. He knows this audience very well because he taught reading and English for seventeen years, mostly in Durango, Colorado. Hobbs's father was an engineer in the Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Will Hobbs from Gale. That's a tough one! Let me be three, so I could switch from land to sea to air. That would be the ultimate.

On land I'd be a griz, of course. You've noticed from my books that I have a thing about bears. In the sea, can you guess? That wasn't my first choice. I'd be a sea turtle. In the air, I'd be a peregrine falcon, so I could see the world. I'd have to say blue, all shades of blue. I like turquoise, robin's egg blue, teal, light blue, navy blue, old blue jeans.

As a kid, did you ever do anything dumb that ended up years later in one of your books? Once I bought a ticket for a movie and then stood in line with my friends waiting for the doors to open. When I finally got to the ticket-taker, I realized I had been chewing my ticket.

It was now a spitwad. Backpacking, whitewater rafting, sea kayaking, fishing catch and release , truck camping in Canada and Alaska, gardening, reading, learning about archeology, natural history, and paleontology. Southwestern Colorado. I've lived here since l I love living in this area because everything is so close: mountains, canyons, rivers. Our house, which you can see in the photo, is at the very edge of Durango, bordering a large wildlife preserve.

From our windows we see elk, deer, eagles, bears, even an occasional mountain lion. Ten, rowing my own whitewater raft.