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The latest by Michelle Knudsen \u201995, of Library Lion<\/em> fame: the story of a sensitive spider who yearns to be a pet kitten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A while back, bestselling children\u2019s author and longtime NYC dweller Michelle Knudsen \u201995<\/a> was staying at a friend\u2019s house upstate while she was between apartments. To her horror, she realized she had a roommate: a rather gigantic arachnid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was there by myself\u2014and I\u2019m terrified of spiders,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been terrified of spiders my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, at one point Knudsen had tried exposure therapy to lessen her phobia. But back to our tale:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI want to say he was a wolf spider,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI didn\u2019t get close enough to really figure it out. But he was very big.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Knudsen did the only logical thing under the circumstances: she named the spider \u201cLuigi,\u201d and started talking to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happily, Knudsen\u2019s one-sided relationship with her eight-legged cohabitant had a fairy-tale ending: it inspired her latest book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luigi, The Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten<\/em><\/a> spins the tale of a friendship between an elderly woman and the creepy-crawly critter who lives in her house\u2014and desperately wants to be her beloved pet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School Library Journal<\/em> dubs the volume \u201ca welcome addition to picture book shelves.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booklist<\/em> says, \u201cThe silly, sweet story is packed with humor and marvelous minutiae,\u201d lauding its \u201cmessage of unconditional acceptance sure to make an arachnid ally out of any young reader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luigi<\/em> is just the latest from Knudsen, who has penned more than 50 books for young readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include holiday-themed board books; titles for beginning readers; middle-grade fiction (her Trelian<\/em> fantasy trilogy); YA novels (a trilogy based around an evil librarian); a chapter book on pioneering journalist Nellie Bly; and even a half-dozen activity books tied into the first Star Wars<\/em> prequel (like Jar Jar\u2019s Coloring Fun<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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But the former English major is perhaps best known for her 2006 picture book, Library Lion<\/em><\/a>\u2014a New York Times<\/em> bestseller that Time<\/em> magazine called one of the 100 best children\u2019s books<\/a> of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knudsen is perhaps best known for Library Lion<\/em>, which Time<\/em> magazine called one of the 100 best children\u2019s books of all time.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(Like all of Knudsen\u2019s books, its illustrations are by an artist with whom she doesn\u2019t directly collaborate\u2014in this case, Kevin Hawkes, who also did the artwork for Luigi<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of a maned carnivore who becomes a popular and (relatively) well behaved patron of a small-town library, it landed on School Library Journal<\/em>\u2019s best of the year list and has been translated into some two dozen languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe lion wandered all around the library,\u201d Knudsen writes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe sniffed the card catalog. He rubbed his head against the new book collection. Then he padded over to the story corner and went to sleep. No one was sure what to do. There weren\u2019t any rules about lions in the library.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A student library assistant as an undergrad, Knudsen wrote her future bestseller while working at Olin and Kroch during a five-year stint living back in Ithaca in her 20s.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cIt\u2019s still my favorite place that I ever worked; it was such a magical experience,\u201d she says of conceiving her breakthrough project at her alma mater. \u201cIt was my 38th book\u2014so it wasn\u2019t my first, but it was the first one that really took off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always an avid reader, Knudsen had originally planned to become a writer of fantasy fiction. Her first job out of college was an entry-level gig at the children\u2019s books arm of Random House publishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enjoying one of her favorite pastimes in her undergrad dorm room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She figured it would be a stepping stone to the company\u2019s fantasy imprint\u2014but wound up falling in love with kids\u2019 literature and making it a career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re writing for young children, everything is new to them,\u201d she observes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if you\u2019re writing about something ordinary, you can present it in a way that\u2019s exciting to them. But you can also go anywhere, and kids will go with you, wherever the story takes them. I love that openness: being able to think of weird ideas and trust that there will be readers who say, \u2018Yes, that\u2019s weird. Tell me more.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(All images provided.<\/em> Author photo by Michael Leali.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 10, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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