Obert Skye


Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the Leven Thumps series, the Pillage trilogy,Obert Skye#cite note-1| and The Creature from My Closet series. He is also the author of Witherwood Reform School and Beyond Foo.

Emphasis on imagination

Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further "research" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger and beyond the books.”Obert Skye#cite note-4| Imagination is one of the most powerful things in the world, according to Skye. “What doesn’t it make better?” he asks. “It makes school better; it makes problems better. Imagination makes life more textured; it’s a vehicle that opens your mind to the impossible.”Obert Skye#cite note-5|

Childhood and education

Skye attended school in parts of the United States and parts of Europe. He has written commercials, screenplays, and novels. He has traveled to all fifty states talking with schools and libraries and any cluster of people who are kind enough to listen about writing and imagination.

Book series

The Leven Thumps Series—Simon & Schuster/Shadow Mountain Publishing
The Creature from My Closet Series—Macmillan Publishing
  • Wonkenstein
  • Potterwookie
  • Pinocula
  • Katfish
  • Lord of the Hat
  • Batneezer
Pillage Trilogy—Shadow Mountain Publishing
Beyond Foo—Shadow Mountain Publishing
Witherwood Reform School
Geeked Out—Macmillan Publishing
  • Geeked Out
  • Bigger, Badder, Nerdier
Mutant Bunny Island—Harper Collins
Wizard For Hire—Shadow Mountain Publishing