Behind the Book: Ragweed

Avi writes:

The Poppy books were not written in order. First I wrote Poppy, the second book in the series, then Poppy and Rye, as the third. Only then did I write Ragweed—the first. I did so because although Ragweed, as a character, leaves the series quite early, his spirit, so to speak, is in all the books. I—and my readers—needed to know about him, and how and why he came to Dimwood Forest. That’s how the book came to be. And I—as a writer—love how what happens in this book has an impact on the last book in the series, Poppy and Ereth.