Quick Story:
After class on Wednesday I stopped by Barnes and Noble. (We talked about it so much during class, I felt the urge!!) There was a table of "How To" books and one of the titles was something along the lines of, "How to Write a Children's Book." I was excited until I flipped through the 300 pages and didn't find much of interest....and it was next to "How to Fix Your Bathroom." I felt that this book, on how to write a children's book, was not complete enough and written by authors that were not credible.
Just an interesting story I wanted to share with the rest of you.
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How crazy yet, sadly, very telling...
Books like the one you found too often perpetuate the idea that anyone can write children's books because they're "easy" and "simple" to write...
Bravo to you for following up on a class discussion! Did you see any politically themed books?
That's great that you checked up on that...so weird that there's a "how to" on writing children's book. Was it next to the "how to take an adult theme and make it for children"?? (aka...the sex and the city for younger audiences) haha.
Katie!
I loved that you went to Barnes and Noble and checked that stuff out! It's crazy that there is a "how to" about writing children's books. Maybe we should all take the hint that we can write a children's book if we wanted to!!! Next time we shall go together and we should find more great books to look at!!
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