![]() ![]() Instead, he presents his usual excellent fare: clever, well-paced plots, wildly weird characters you would find only in Florida and a passionate loathing for people who stink up the water and land. In other words, Hiaasen isn't writing down to young readers nor is he dishing out moral lectures. This is the reason more than 1 million copies of Hoot are in print and why Flush probably and deservedly will float to the top of the juvenile best-seller lists. ![]() When writing for adults, Hiaasen ladles in plenty of sexual kinkiness, political scandal, financial corruption and a palpable fury at the destruction of the environment.įor young readers, Hiaasen deletes the first ingredient but includes all the rest. (Hiaasen's adult best sellers include such dark comedies as Tourist Season, Skinny Dip and Striptease.) ![]() ![]() Rowling.Įnter Carl Hiaasen, the rare writer who can write entertainingly for both the PG crowd with his middle school hit, Hoot, and now Flush, as well as for older readers who enjoy their fiction rated R for raunchy. In the world of children's literature, many are called, but few are chosen.Ĭreating a work of fiction for young readers can present even more challenges than writing an adult novel: a restricted vocabulary, an inexperienced audience and no leaning on that old commercial fiction standby, sex.īookstores groan with the failed efforts of big-name writers and celebrities who have tried to follow the path to juvenile hearts blazed by J.K. ![]()
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