Roderick Townley is best known as a writer of children’s fantasies. The Great Good Thing, the first book in his Sylvie Cycle, a trilogy, has just been relaunched in a special 25th anniversary edition. In a starred review, Kirkus called it “utterly winning…a book beloved from the first page.” “Sure to become a classic,” declared VOYA. The Harry Potter artist, Mary Grand Pre, illustrated his award-winning book, The Blue Shoe. Almost always the tallest man in sight, Roderick met his 6’ wife Wyatt, Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita, in New York at a poetry reading across a crowded room. He has two children, Jesse and Grace.
