Obert Skye
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Obert Skye | |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Notable works | Leven Thumps |
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Obert Skye is a bestselling American children's writer known for the Leven Thumps series, the Pillage Trilogy.[1] and The Creature from My Closet. He has also written, Witherwood Reform School, and Beyond Foo.
Works
Skye places great emphasis on the imagination in his novels and on discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further "research" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger and beyond the books.”[4] Imagination is one of the most powerful things in the world, according to Skye. “What doesn’t it make better?” he asks. “It makes school better; it makes problems better. Imagination makes life more textured; it’s a vehicle that opens your mind to the impossible.”[5]
Childhood and Education
Obert attended school in parts of the United States and parts of Europe. He has written for commercials, screenplays and various novels. He has traveled to all fifty states talking with schools and libraries and any cluster of people who are kind enough to listen about writing and imagination.
Book series
- Leven Thumps Series
- The Creature From My Closet Series
- Pillage
New books
- Batneezer, the sixth book in the Creature series comes out in September 2016
- Obert has two new series beginning the coming year.
- Geeked Up by MacMillian
- Mutant Bunny Island by HarperCollins
Publications
The Leven Thumps Series—Simon and Shuster/Shadow Mountain Publishing
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
- Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
- Leven Thumps and he Eyes of the Want
- Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra
- Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder
- Professor Winsnicker’s Guide to the Well-Mannered Sycophant.
The Creature From My Closet Series—MacMillian Publishing
- Wonkenstein
- Potterwookie
- Pinocula
- Katfish
- Lord of the Hat
- Batneezer
Pillage Trilogy—Shadow Mountain Publishing
- Pillage
- Choke
- Ambush
- The Pillagy
Beyond Foo—Shadow Mountain Publishing
- The Return of the Lithens
- The Deception of Dreams
Witherwood Reform School (MacMillian Publishing)
- Witherwood Reform School
- Lost and Found
Geeked Up—Macmillian Publishing
- Volume one to be released in 2017
Mutant Bunny Island—Harper Collins
- Volume one to be released in 2017
References
External links
- Obert Skye at the MLCA Database
- Obert Skye at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Obert Skye at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalog records
