Though his first novel-an autobiographical satire about his work as a bank messenger when he was younger-wasn’t published until he was 31 years old, and he didn’t begin his most popular series until he was in his 40s, Lloyd Alexander published nearly 50 novels in his lifetime, most of them for children and young adults. The Chronicles of Prydain Boxed Set contains Books 1-5 1 The Book of Three 2 The Black Cauldron 3 The Castle of Llyr 4 Taran Wanderer 5 The High King. His most popular series, The Chronicles of Prydain, was adapted into the Walt Disney animated film The Black Cauldron in 1985, and he was a co-creator of the children’s literary magazine Cricket in 1973, the goal of which was to create “ The New Yorker for children.” He also served on the magazine’s editorial board. Among their many accolades, the award-winning Chronicles of Prydain count a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and more than two million copies in print. Thus began a career that would eventually net Alexander the Newbery Medal and two National Book Awards, and make him a beloved figure in literature for children and young adults. The five novels by Lloyd Alexander, based on Welsh mythology, were published annually from 1964 to 1968 and followed the protagonist Taran from youth to maturity. They bought them at the Salvation Army to fill up empty shelves.” Disney has acquired movie rights to the fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain and is in early development on the project, Variety has learned. “My parents never cracked a book,” he told the Christian Science Monitor, “just newspapers. Born in 1924, legendary children’s author Lloyd Alexander grew up in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, where he taught himself to read by the age of four.
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