"I think I enjoyed being scared by stories as a child. I wanted today's young readers to have that same feeling. The story changed, over several revisions, to become The Skeleton Tree." Scare tactics The original idea for the story was simply about survival on the water - a boy, a lifeboat and how he tries to survive. Stories like Treasure Island, tales that had a sense of adventure and danger in them. "The story appeals to me because it's just like the stories my father read to me when I was a child. I would spend two or three months a year in very remote places in this region, which would become the setting for this book. "I've spent a lot of time on the north coast of British Columbia, the part that's now the Great Bear Rainforest. In his own words, Lawrence shares how he wrote The Skeleton Tree. The Skeleton Tree is a finalist for the 2017 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award The Skeleton Tree is a survival tale that tracks two boys who need to quickly learn how to survive in the wilderness when their boat sinks off the coast of Alaska. The Skeleton Tree is the 2017 winner of the most votes in the CBC Books Fan Choice Contest.Iain Lawrence is a bestselling author of books for children of all ages. The B.C.-based writer won the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature for the novel Gemini Summer and his latest book, The Skeleton Tree, was a finalist for the 2017 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
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