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Before he was thirty, Richard Scrimger had learned to walk, ride a bike, do crossword puzzles, make scrambled eggs and play the trumpet.* Next thing he knew he had four children to look after, so he decided he’d better learn how to write fiction. His best-known books, which feature a wisecracking alien living in the narrator's nose, have won awards in Canada and the United States, and been translated into a dozen languages. His latest offering is called From Charlie's Point Of View, and is told partly by a blind teenager. Now Richard is working on Into The Ravine, a book in which three boys go downriver on a raft and end up in jail. He'd better finish it soon, because his two oldest kids are almost ready for university. Some people write for a living. Richard writes for his life.

*Wait. Now that I think of it, it wasn't the trumpet. It was the saxophone.