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[Sound of ancient door opening]
You know I grew up reading about
this type of novel myself
I read Alfred Hitchcock's
Three Investigator Series with
Jupiter Jones and Danny Dunn and
Scientific Adventures.
I just loved that stuff growing up.
I sort of wanted to do that to
try to sort of stimulate the new kids
to keep reading that kind of stuff
that's scientific adventure.
You know, Harry Potter's got magic and
Twilight has vampires, and I'd
just like to slip a little science
in there. So a kid doesn't have no
special powers, he's not magical, he's
not a vampire, he can't live forever,
yet he's surviving by his wits.
He's using his science, his knowledge
to get out of tight situations.
That's not the reason.
[laughter]
Sounded good though, didn't it?
You weren't falling for it were ya?
I wrote it because I wanted to write
about dinosaurs.
[loud laughter]
I couldn't do it as an adult.
Pretty much Michael Crichton
covered the bases with
Jurassic Park and Lost World
and could never as an adult
write about dinosaurs anymore
so if I wanted to write about
dinosaurs I had to do it with a
kid book, and as everybody knows
they're good snacks.
So I thought I'd write a kids book.
[chuckling]
[whispers] That's why.
[Sound of ancient door opening]