Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Book Review:The Shark In the Park
Writing fiction for small children
might seem to some like an easy outing for a writer, being that most
books for children only have about one or two lines a page and are
made up of fantastical and whimsical subject matter that does not
have to follow some of the usual rules of writing a story, nor be as
sophisticated as those for an older audience.
Like most tasks that seem easy from
afar, the task of telling a story in such a short number of words is
actually quite a feat, something that takes effort and extreme
concentration. Engaging an adult reader in two hundred pages can be
quite a task but imagine an author's burden when he writes for
children. Not only must he craft a complete tale in a limited space
but also hold the imagination and attention of a small child in a
world filled with electronic distractions.
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