FROM READER TO WRITER

Taking inspiration from beloved children’s books, and from lives of the authors who wrote them, Sarah Ellis provides suggestions that will help parents, workshop leaders and teachers awaken the imagination of children and start them writing stories. Includes activities that are both fun and original, such as drawing your own island and imagining the adventure that might take place there or learning some basic Klingon and then making up your own secret language.

Where did this book come from?
When I finished The Young Writers’ Companion I had lots of good stories and ideas left over so I put them in a book for adults.

Chapter Titles:

Islands of the Mind: Robert Louis Stevenson
Kin Stories: Jean Little
Fairies in Our Midst: P.L. Travers
Clip and Write: Monica Hughes
Summers on the Lake: Arthur Ransome
Bird-Man of the Arctic: Michael Kusugak
E.S.L. Elvish as a Second Language: J.R.R. Tolkien
Write While You Sleep: Susan Cooper
Yours Affectionately: Beatrix Potter
Digging Up Stories: Paul Yee
A Bag of Tricks: Lewis Carroll
Book Breeding: Kit Pearson
Piano Four Hands: C.S. Lewis
A Picture and a Thousand Words: Virginia Hamilton
A Tale of Two Journals: Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery On the Outside Looking In: Katherine Paterson

Ellis takes us behind the scenes where we catch writers in the act of creation.

-City Parent