GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK)- A popular children’s author was in Green Bay Friday night.
“Goosebump” author R.L. Stine tells Fox 11, everywhere he goes he hears that kids discovered a love of reading through the popular series.
“What a wonderful thing to affect a generation like that. Goosebumps is 25-years old.”
Stine was in Green Bay for the “UntitledTown Book and Author Festival” and spoke at the Weidner Center.
He says his goal was to make sure that they were easy to read could keep kids attention.
“You don’t have to watch a movie or do something else to be entertained. You can read a book, and that is the whole point of Goosebumps.”
Stine says he liked to end each chapter in a certain way and said he added a lot of humor to books since they were geared for kids.
“Every chapter ending has a cliffhanger or some big surprise to keep them reading.”
Stine says he would add something humorous if he felt the story was getting too scary.”
His technique worked, since he started, Stine has sold more than 400 million books and according to his website, 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of “Goosebumps” with more than 130 titles in the series.
“It’s so nice. They say, ‘thank you for getting me through a hard childhood’ or ‘I wouldn’t be a librarian today if it wasn’t for you’ or ‘I learned to read on your books.”
The popular books were also turned into a television series and a movie.
