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| 'Al Capone' Returns to Alcatraz |
| By washingtonpost.com |
| Published: 10/13/2009 |
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"Anytime you write a book, kids want a sequel," said Gennifer Choldenko, author of the award-winning 2004 novel "Al Capone Does My Shirts." But Choldenko was worried about producing a second book featuring Moose, the 12-year-old son of a prison warden growing up on Alcatraz, the famous island prison in San Francisco Bay. She remembers, as a kid herself, being so excited to read the sequel to her favorite book, "Harriet the Spy," and then hating it when it came out. "I was furious," she said. So she thought long and hard before writing a sequel. "You have to ask yourself, 'Is there a real reason to have a sequel, or is it just because kids want it?' " Choldenko decided she had more stories to tell about Moose and life on Alcatraz, which for a few decades was home to some of the world's most famous criminals and also to the families of prison employees. Last month she published "Al Capone Shines My Shoes," set in 1935, in which the affable Moose gets even further drawn into life with the residents of Alcatraz -- those behind bars and those not. Read More. |
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