Six Best Tips for Writing Children's Books
When writing children's books keep your writing clean, clear, and simple. Think how a child would think, what they would find interesting, and what they might like to see or read. Visualize yourself as a child and try to see from a child's eyes. Read other published children's books to get a feel for the layout. Do not use big complicated words but do keep your grammar correct. Scroll down to see the six best tips for writing children's books.
The Six Best Tips for Writing Children's Books
1. Prepare and research your material.
Write stories based on facts instead of just fantasy and made up stuff so that the children can learn from your writing.
2. Remember yourself as a child
Remember what you liked as a child
Remember how you felt as a child and portray it in your writing
3. Use your imagination
Children like exciting, big things that catch their eye, are unusual, not something they see everyday, which is one reason dinosaurs books and toys caught on so quick.
4. Use big, brightly colored pictures for each page
Children love big bright colors and people or animals with large eyes and mouths which is one reason why they love puppets and cartoons.
Make sure the pictures on each page match what you are writing about
5. Don't use too many words or pictures on each page
Children tend to get excited about what is on the next page and they like to turn the pages when you are reading to them.
6. Rhymes
Some say that children's books should not be wrote in rhymes. However, The Cat in the Hat Books were written in Rhymes, did very well, and have been handed down generation to generation. The choice is yours as a writer you are in control of what you feel works best.
Write stories based on facts instead of just fantasy and made up stuff so that the children can learn from your writing.
2. Remember yourself as a child
Remember what you liked as a child
Remember how you felt as a child and portray it in your writing
3. Use your imagination
Children like exciting, big things that catch their eye, are unusual, not something they see everyday, which is one reason dinosaurs books and toys caught on so quick.
4. Use big, brightly colored pictures for each page
Children love big bright colors and people or animals with large eyes and mouths which is one reason why they love puppets and cartoons.
Make sure the pictures on each page match what you are writing about
5. Don't use too many words or pictures on each page
Children tend to get excited about what is on the next page and they like to turn the pages when you are reading to them.
6. Rhymes
Some say that children's books should not be wrote in rhymes. However, The Cat in the Hat Books were written in Rhymes, did very well, and have been handed down generation to generation. The choice is yours as a writer you are in control of what you feel works best.
Quote's from Famous Writer's:
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
- William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
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