Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and … - Russell Freedman

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Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Russell Freedman

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

Audience, History, Kids, Special, Writing

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I'd like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn't catch on to while I was writing my book and, hopefully, that would start a conversation.

Book, Regret, Reveal, Roosevelt, Start, Writing

I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want to be writers but who rarely come out and say so in their letters. You can tell by the questions they ask - How did you get your ﬁrst book published? How long do you spend on a book? So I guess those are the readers that I'm writing for - kids who enjoy that kind of book, because they're interested in history, in other people's lives, in what has happened in the world. I believe that they're the ones who are going to be the movers and shakers.

Believe, Book, Fun, Interested, Love, Rarely

With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.

Audience, Book, Experience, Kid, Reading, Writing

Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a Lincoln scholar writing an academic book on Lincoln. Each of these writers has a different audience and different goals. That's obvious.

Book, Lincoln, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Writers, Writing

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics. " Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?

Female, Females, Foreheads, Mean, Sexist, Thomas