What was gordon korman first book

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Korman's trademark storylines—featuring slapstick humor, madcap adventures, and high-spirited, rebellious characters—have helped make him a favorite author of school-age readers—particularly boys—across Canada and the United States. I hope other kids see that in my work. Korman was born in in Montreal, Quebec, where his father worked as an accountant and his mother wrote an "Erma Bombeck-type column" for a local newspaper, as he told Bennetts.

In elementary and middle school Korman was always fond of writing—especially his own brand of zany stories and scenarios. Korman's writing career began at the age of twelve with a story assignment for his seventh-grade English class. She told me to write about something a little closer to home. The class had to read all the assignments at the end of the whole business, and a lot of people were coming to me and saying how they really liked it.

I suppose anyone who writes pages for class is going to attract a certain amount of attention anyway—and I just got the idea of seeing if I could get the book published. In the first half of his career Korman primarily wrote comedic novels, but in he made the leap to action-adventure stories with Shipwreck , the first book in the 3-part Island series, about 6 troubled children who are removed from society and forced to cope with hardship and problem-solving aboard a ship headed for Guam.

Regardless of whether he is writing funny or suspenseful stories, Korman sticks to the same formula when crafting his novels: "It's a combination between real life and pure imagination," he says in an interview with his publisher, Scholastic. To be honest, by the time a book is done, you can't recognize much of the real-life part. It's been changed too much. But I never could have gotten there without it.

To date, Korman has written more than 75 books, which have sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. Korman has also gained success on television: his 6-book series Monday Night Football Club , about 3 children who find themselves switching places with famous NFL stars, was adapted into the Disney Channel TV series The Jersey , which aired for 3 seasons from to Search The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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