Steven Zienka is a student at Academy of Art University, and as a student project, he chose to adapt a scene from The Edge Chronicles, a series of children's books written and illustrated by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Perhaps I shouldn't devote a page to this little exercise, but I loved the writing and doing the scene, so here it is.
I am Spelda Snatchwood, a wood troll and I have to tell my son, Twig, played by Spencer Neustadt, a number of very painful things. First, he has to leave home; he's 13, an adult, and must find his own way. He's not built for felling trees like his father, Tuntum. The cabin is too small for him; he's already too tall and slim, not like wood trolls who are small and stocky. And the sky pirates, having seen him on a wood selling trip with his father, will come looking for him to take him away. Sky pirates are like that -- always abducting woodtrolls who never come back to tell the tale.
