She was so successful that by the time Christopher, and later Angela, turned three years old, they were both comfortably working at a first-grade level. Since some of the materials in a Montessori school are expensive, Talita experimented and came up with creative alternatives to inspire and educate her children. Talita used the Montessori method to teach Christopher at home, and two years later when sister Angela came along, she, too, became part of the Paolini classroom. Montessori is a system of learning developed by Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870 –1952) some of its features include a focus on individual instruction and an early development of writing skills. In 1984, when Christopher Paolini was born, his mother, Talita, quit her job as a Montessori preschool teacher to devote her time to raising In a interview, the author and boy wonder promised fans that future books would include the same "breathtaking locations, thrilling battles, and searching introspection as Eragon -in addition to true love." A reluctant reader Paolini was also hard at work writing the second and third installments in the Inheritance trilogy. In 2003 the book nestled comfortably on bestseller lists, and by 2004 a movie based on the magnificent tale of a boy and a brilliant blue dragon was poised to take flight. When he was a mere fifteen years old, he penned a sweeping epic called Eragon, which was eventually discovered by a New York publisher -and by thousands of readers. Author Christopher Paolini not only writes about fantasy, he lives it.
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