Ridley: Paige has this great connection now to reading, because from the age of five, she realizes it was her idea that started us on the Peter and the Star-Catchers series. It’s so great when they’re reading and not playing video games and it helps them in life. My wife and I have read to our daughter since the beginning. Q: How important is reading in your families?ĭave: It’s huge. And of course she likes them, her Dad wrote them! Q: What do your kids think of your books for children? Have they read them?ĭave: My eight-year-old daughter has read our books for younger children and she’s pretty proud of herself for reading them. I thought, 'there’s gotta be a prequel there.' I mentioned the idea to Dave and he got excited.

Ridley Pearson: I had been reading Peter Pan to my daughter and she asked me how Captain Hook had met Peter Pan in the first place. Q: What made you guys collaborate on Young Adult books?ĭave Barry: We love kids as readers, they’re the best readers you can have because they either love it or they hate it. We had a ball talking to these fun, wacky and hands-on Dads about their books, their kids and even their own childhoods. Ridley is the dad of two daughters: 11-year-old Paige, and 10-year-old Storey. Together Dave and Ridley have collaborated on seven books for young readers.ĭave is the father of 28-year-old son Robert, and eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. Ridley Pearson is a best-selling author of suspense and crime novels for adults and mystery books for children. Dave also writes books for adults and has teamed with fellow author Ridley Pearson, to co-write books for young adults and children. Dave Barry is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer whose Miami Herald newspaper column explores family and the fun and wacky world we live in.

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