Hallowe’en is almost here again! It’s on 31st October. So we have the perfect book for this season.
The Witch's Boy
by Michael Gruber
You can buy a hardcover (more expensive) or a paperback (cheaper) edition of the book.
Hardcover.
First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: March 2005
. 377 pages
Paperback.
Paperback first released in the USA by HarperTeen
• Publication Date: May 2006
. 400 pages
Book Summary
A fantastic journey through the realms of magic
A witch finds an extremely and repulsively ugly baby in the woods. She adopts the child, takes good care of him and gives him a bear as a nanny and a genie as a servant. His only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose language he learns to speak.
However this abandoned child becomes consumed by the desire of money and revenge against those who have hurt him but he eventually finds his true heart’s desire.
A brilliantly written story. For teenagers aged 12-16.
In this sensational fantasy story, Michael Gruber has created a world that is at once familiar and very original, a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder.
Biography
Michael Gruber was born in New York City. He went to Columbia, where he studied English literature. After college he wrote in various small magazines in New York, and then went back to school at City College and got the equivalent of a second BA, in biology. After that he went to the University of Miami and got a masters in marine biology. In 1968-69 he was in the U. S. Army as a doctor.
In 1973, he received his Ph.D. in marine sciences, for a study of octopus behaviour. Then he was a chef at several Miami restaurants; a hippie travelling around in a bus and worked for various rock groups. After this he worked as an analyst; then as director of planning for the county department of human resources.
In 1986, he was promoted to the Senior Executive Service of the U.S., the highest level of the federal civil service.
In 1984 his cousin, Robert Tanenbaum, a successful lawyer, asked him to rewrite his (Robert’s) books. This arrangement continued for 15 books.
He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1990, but also doing non-fiction magazine pieces on biology.
He started writing The Witch's Boy in 1996, but he couldn’t find a publisher. In 2005 he finally published The Witch's Boy.
He is married and has got three grown children and an extremely large dog.
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