Hi I’m Tom Angleberger I am the author of the Origami Yoda series and a few other books.
You know it really is no surprise that I ended up being somebody that tells stories because my family is famous for stories, both my mother and my father have stories that are dragged out over and over and over again. Usually about some larger than life figure that we had in our life. And we hear about this person over and over and over again and they get to be bigger and bigger until, you know, they become tall tales.
So, yeah, I have a number of figures like Mountain Bob. There was this guy, Bob the king of the mountain that my father had a million stories about Bob doing all this crazy stuff. And my father was a — is a very funny guy. He has lots of jokes and stuff. And so I just sort of grew up thinking well you make a joke out of every situation and you get these stories and you polish them up and you make them funny and that’s how you, that’s how you communicate.
And so yeah, that’s definitely how we did it in our family.