Colin Meloy is best known as the front man for the band the Decemberists. His music is praised for its lyrical quality and the stories the songs tell, so it may not be a surprise to learn Meloy is also a writer.
His newest book is a collaboration with his wife, illustrator Carson Ellis. The book is intended for young readers, the second in a series called Wildwood Chronicles.
The book catches us up with a precocious seventh-grader named Prue McKeel, who lives in Portland, Ore. In the first book, she was on a mission to rescue her baby brother after he was kidnapped by a flock of crows and deposited deep in the Impassable Wilderness — a forest across the Willamette River known to locals as Wildwood.
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