The Washington Post, May 21st, 2006
Carl Hiaasen has spent most of his life making adults laugh about serious subjects, but recently he's been cracking up kids with a couple of novels about the environment. The new movie "Hoot," about a boy named Roy on a mission to save some burrowing owls from being bulldozed, is based on his first children's book. His second book, Flush, tells the story of Noah and his friends as they try to stop a casino owner from polluting the harbor. Here, Book World senior editor Ron Charles talks to Carl Hiaasen in a telephone interview. How can you be funny while writing about things as serious as poll...
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