She always credits this literary freedom as the beginning of her love of stories—especially fairy tales, adventure stories, anything Arthurian, and Alice In Wonderland. This free access to books also, she says, broadened her vocabulary and made her reach for new and interesting words and ...
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We are not looking for folk tales, legends, myths, fables or fairy tales or modern retellings of these. We are looking for brand new stories with a contemporary style and setting (though we are expanding this category to include stories that involve time travelling too for the section ‘Worl...
For Short & Sweet, I originally intended it to be a sci-fi/comedy (like The Absent-Minded Professor or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), but it might be more like a magical-body-swap story (like Freaky Friday or Big). After 3 literary adventures and over 5 years in the fridge, Lady Panc...
Fantasy Writing Prompts—Welcome! With creativity and good fantasy plot ideas, your writers will be off and spinning their very own fantasy tales in no time. Read on to discover more. Do you need some fabulous fantasy writing ideas for kids? Maybe you want to teach a fantasy writing unit ...
11 Writing Prompts for Kids Any of these prompts can be used by writers of any age, but we chose the following 11 prompts as ones that would be particularly fun for kids to write about. (Most of them I used myself as a young writer, so I can vouch for their working!) ...
On the first day back at boarding school, Andrew can’t wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales that he writes for Thomas – the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas’ parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas won’t talk to Andrew...
[完型填空] Teaching poetry writing has always been a pleasant activity for me.Usually, I teach it according to the following steps:First, reading and discussing good kids'poems.Learning poems written by other ___ sends a clear message, “Kids just like you wrote these poems.You can write ...
fairy tales,as well as more modern stories that have been written more recently.Many works of children's fiction use“sing-song'rhythms.37Though some children's fiction is intended for children of all ages,many works are specifically written for younger or older children.Picture books,for ...