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Harry Moon’s BOOK CLUB is story in community It is a place where you and your kids will discover great and personal truths with the help of a teen-age magician, his sister and a rabbit
AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRY MOON
Q: What do you hope they learn or take away from your stories Harry? A: I guess that kids should be con dent in themselves and not let themselves
get bullied around and how important good friends are
Q: You talk about being bullied by Titus in your middle school. What do A: you hope kids learn from you about how to deal with a bully-Titus?
It’s not fun to be bullied It’s actually scary Sometimes the only thing you can do is tell somebody that it is happening because sometimes it like wrecks your life For me, I decided that I would try and make the bully my friend by being kind to him rather than being afraid For me, it worked It doesn’t always work Believe me, I know
Q: You share with kids your love of magic, how did you develop that A: love? How did you learn to do magic tricks?
It wasn’t that I loved magic, but I loved being able to do things that surprised people I liked hearing them say, “How did he do that?!” Along the way I discovered there was magic and that there was ‘real, deep magic’ That is when everything changed
Q: When you went to the magic store to get a wand for your magic trick (you were doing for the talent show); you met Samson. What was
A: your rst impression of him? What did you learn from him?
My rst impression of Samson was that he was a very old goofy guy Not many adults pay attention to you when you are a kid I liked him almost right away He taught me the deep magic
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