His book The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Medal Honor Book.
He grew up in Drexel Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ~ With all warmest wishes, Lloyd Alexander ~ As for future writing plans, I've just finished a new book, due out in October, called "The Rope Trick." Definitely a fantasy, but a rather unsual one.
I hope the enclosed booklet will be of help. I'm delighted and feel highly honored to be the subject of your report. No author could wish for a greater compliment. (See Below).Ībove Photo of Lloyd Alexander taken by Alexander Lamontĭear E.S.: Many thanks for your fine letter. The Gawgon and the Boy offers excellent period details, hysterical dialogue, and convincingly funny and authentic 11-year-old imaginings from Newbery Medal and National Book Award winner Lloyd Alexander.This site is part of a class project for LS 5603, a graduate level children's literature course offered at Texas Woman's University, in which I write an author study on Lloyd Alexander. "In a tone that made me think of the Almighty commanding Abraham to sacrifice young Isaac, she said: 'Give me the boy.'"īut this horrible old Gorgon (Aunt Rosie translation: "Gawgon") proves to be David's perfect foil, an ingenious mentor who so impresses David-whom she takes to simply calling "The Boy" after she learns about her nickname-that she begins to co-star in his time-hopping, globe-trotting adventure stories. (A "tooter," says Aunt Rosie, to keep him from becoming an "ignoramiss.") And it could be a worse fate than David ever imagined, maybe even worse than Rittenhouse: his stern, elderly Aunt Annie volunteers for the job. McKelvie (who, incidentally, calls David "laddie-buck").īut mild exercise turns out to include more than lounging around reading books about pirates, sneaking into theaters to see "the new films that actually talk" (this being right before the Depression), and writing up clever cartoons about the "Sea-Fox," the devilishly devious scourge of the Spanish Main. David (also known as "Bax," "Skeezix," "Skinamalink," Snicklefritz," and "First Sergeant," depending on which grownup is doing the addressing) decides that he'd be more than happy to wile away his days with some fresh air and "mild exercise," as prescribed by Dr.
("New Monia," as his Aunt Rosie called it with her heavy British accent, not unlike the "Spanish Influenzo.") But all that bed rest would have been worth it if it meant he could escape Rittenhouse Academy and continue on among the rogues' gallery of eccentric friends and relatives that passes through his family's Philadelphia home. Eleven-year-old David nearly died of pneumonia.
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