Lois Lowry, THE WINDEBY PUZZLE: History and Story
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author (and one of Zibby's childhood author idols!!) Lois Lowry joins Zibby to discuss The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story, an evocative tale of a boy and a girl battling to survive during the Iron Age, inspired by the true discovery of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body in Germany. Lois talks about her fascination with the discovered body, which scientists determined was a thirteen-year-old girl and then a sixteen-year-old boy, hence her two protagonists and the dual narrative she so masterfully weaves together. Lois also shares the fascinating details of her life – from a childhood of international moves, new schools, and crippling shyness, to getting married and having four children before the age of 26, to finally getting her writing published.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 0:58.5 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Lois Lowry is the author of the Windowie Puzzle, History and Story. |
| 1:03.4 | Lois Lowes Lowry has been awarded the Newberry Medal twice, first for Number the Stars, |
| 1:08.6 | and then for The Giver. |
| 1:10.3 | The author of more than 40 books for children and young adults, including the New York Times |
| 1:14.5 | best-selling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Kruppnick series, which I read like all |
| 1:20.3 | the time as a child. |
| 1:21.5 | She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Dorothy |
| 1:25.9 | Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She writes, My Books have varied in content and style, yet it seems that all of them deal essentially with the same general thing, the importance of human connections. She lives in Maine and in the winter sometimes flees to Florida for a bit of sun. Welcome, Lois. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss your latest book, |
| 1:47.5 | The Windaby Puzzle. |
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