I love this perspective and often remember feeling that way as a young person.” Everything ignites him with such curiosity and wonder. “The world around him is so new, exciting and often quite confusing. “Pinocchio fascinates me because he’s a wooden boy who comes to life,” John says. Such is the case with his latest book, “The Wooden Prince,” a re-imagining of the Pinocchio story. The adventuresome tales informed his passion for writing fantastical stories – he pulls many ideas from the myths, legends, fairy tales and folklore he grew up reading and builds upon them. As a boy growing up in Pamlico County, children’s author John Claude Bemisspent his days exploring old tobacco barns, swimming in the river, learning to play violin and guitar and, of course, poring over his favorite books.
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