Obert Skye read his first book at the age of two, and wrote his first story at age four.He was nearly trampled by a herd of water buffalo at age six. He is the author of the Leven Thumps series and the Pillage Trilogy.

Skye's work has been criticized as little more than a Harry Potter knockoff. However, the only similarity between Harry and Leven seems to be the fact that they were both forced to live with undesirable relatives. The world of Foo is a clever play on the human psyche whose inhabitants either represent different aspects of human nature or are born of the human imagination (because of dreams). It bears little to no resemblance of Potter's alternate London, or to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There are no wizards, witches, or mythical beasts. Instead, the dream-world of Foo finds itself bearing more of a resemblance to Piers Anthony 's "Xanth" than to anything that exists in Harry Potter's world. Many of the inhabitants of Foo are normal people who were in the right place at the right time and got pulled into Foo completely by surprise. Once they enter Foo, it presumably becomes their job to manipulate the dreams of Humankind to make them more digestible to the Human mind, or sometimes to make them more attainable, though why this would need to be done or even how it is done are unclear.