CHILDREN'S WRITER'S NOTEBOOK: 20 Great Authors

Over 70 writing exercises and activities to help you hone your craft and profiling 20 important writers from the past 150 years. Activities include using memorable rhymes (Dr Seuss), creating curious characters (Maurice Sendak), producing witty dialogue that moves a story forward (A. A. Milne), imagining and describing fantastical landscapes (Antoine de Saint Exupéry), and developing suspenseful action sequences (J. K. Rowling). It guides you through valuable techniques used by the most celebrated authors, covering characters, settings, dialogue, tone, naming characters, reversing roles, nonsense verse, inventing characters from your childhood, using maps, an ideas circle, sending messages, a death, dear diary, a scream in the night, questions and answers, a build-up description, dastardly acts, battle, first lines, a starting point, an introductory speech, to book titles, briefs, a journal as you fill in your trusty notebook in the lined pages of this unique guide. 192 page softback, colour photos.