It’s just waiting for one of these kids who read the book to find it! That’s what I want to happen. Many people did research on Darwin and were in and out.
Isn’t that fascinating? It disappeared from Darwin’s study over 25 years ago, and his house is a museum. I was so fascinated when I found out that this notebook was still out there somewhere.
I just have to wake up one morning with that green-light feeling. I do a good year of thinking, reading, stirring ideas around in my head before I make a real decision about what the book is going to be. In your acknowledgments, you say this novel was "in the making for a number of years." How many, and why so long?Īll of my books take me a number of years. The story is hung on an object that he owned that was stolen 25 years ago and is still gone. The person at the core of this book is one of the most famous and powerful thinkers of our time, a man whose name is known by everyone around the world. This was the notebook he carried with him on the Galapagos Islands. The first very public notice I saw about it was last fall in England. I was just so excited to find out about that notebook. I thought, I don’t quite see how I could use Darwin, but isn’t he inspiring? I read a bit more, and then I discovered that one of his most famous notebooks had been stolen, and was still out there somewhere.
I began thinking about it when I saw the huge traveling Darwin show that started at the Museum of Natural History. How did your interest in Charles Darwin inspire you to write The Danger Box? Your previous novels were history mysteries. Zoomy puts the journal, filled with notations about the Galapagos Islands, under his bed in his cardboard “danger box” eventually, he and a friend figure out that the notebook is a famous artifact. One day the boy’s alcoholic father drops off a pilfered container with a mysterious notebook inside. (Scholastic is printing 75,000 copies, which will add to the 2 million books in print for her previous three titles.) In this story, 12-year-old Zoomy lives with his grandparents in a tiny Michigan town. Six years ago, she started publishing bestselling mysteries: Chasing Vermeer, followed by The Wright 3 and The Calder Game. But she also loved spinning fictional tales based on intriguing historical figures. Daughter of the New Yorker ’s longtime jazz critic, she adored working with third and fourth graders at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Like Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan, Blue Balliett has morphed from popular teacher to popular novelist.
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