The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children
Writer's Digest Books, September, 2001.
Paperback, 232 pages.
ISBN: 1582970521
This new book from children's author
Nancy Lamb can help children's writers
learn more about their craft.
Nancy Lamb has published over 40 books
for children and adults; in this guide she
explains what she has learned during
her career.
The book is filled with suggestions and
tips for crafting children's stories, as well
as warnings about things to avoid. Plotting
from beginning to end, structural design,
characters, scenes, dialogue and point-of-view
are just some of the concepts Lamb discusses.
Lamb provides experiences from her own writing,
which helps readers better understand the
process and learn what to do to help make
their stories more appealing to children and
editors. Lamb
also provides examples from popular
children's fiction, character checklists and more to
help beginning children's writers.
Reading assignments and thought-provoking
exercises are also given.
This is a must-read for children's writers.
The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children is available for purchase on Amazon.com
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This review was published in the February, 2002 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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