K.J. Blocker

author of “Treasure of the Magical Mine Moppets”

January 29, 2019

K.J. Blocker was born in 1963 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has spent much of his life trying new things. When he was a boy, he made God-eyes and sold them to make money. Later he began to write songs. He continued in his entrepreneurial spirit by creating The Original Cheesecake Sundae and selling it at fairs and festivals. Not quite finished creating, he founded and co-invented a vent cap for PVC pipes with Tammy Brown and Mark Temple. He created characters based on the cap called Fit the Wonder Cap and Pipey the Pipe. He never forgot his writing and one day he began to write a song and he just kept on writing. The song turned into a book. K.J. says that his journey over the past three years has taught him just how fragile love is and how important family is.

Enter a magical world where corn grows as high as the clouds and salt can be worth more than gold. A world where a mile beneath the earth live wondrous, iridescent little creatures, happily working and playing. Completely unaware that someone "upside" is plotting to take it all away from them!

In this magical world, you meet wonderful characters. Tom, the farmer who hopes to feed the world with his Ubercorn. Tom's wife and son, who sometimes get left behind as he works. Mr. Withers, the greedy town banker, who wants everything Tom has and will stop at nothing to get it. Tom's Dad, Pappy, who Tom has been angry with for years, but is more like him than he realizes!

Like the Magical Mine Moppets, Tom's family will lose everything if they don't find a way to defeat the evil Mr. Withers, but they must learn that family and love are the only things that can destroy evil. Join us in a breathtaking, wide-eyed adventure into a land that you'll cherish.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2019-honorees/k.j.-blocker

Last Updated: 11 February 2019