{"id":4109,"date":"2013-02-04T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2021-08-14T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T22:24:23","slug":"writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing: Facts, Fiction, Fantasy, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All about writing &#8211; including advice from a mouse, dire warnings from a chicken, and a Machine of Death.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9bbbf73467\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9bbbf73467\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/#HOW-TOS_HELPS_AND_ADVICE_FROM_A_MOUSE\" >HOW-TOS, HELPS, (AND ADVICE FROM A MOUSE)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/2\/#IDEAS_AND_STORY_STARTERS\" >IDEAS AND STORY STARTERS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/3\/#INSPIRING_IMAGINATION\" >INSPIRING IMAGINATION<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/4\/#DISCOVERING_VOICE\" >DISCOVERING VOICE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/5\/#POINT_OF_VIEW\" >POINT OF VIEW<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/6\/#GOING_GRAPHIC\" >GOING GRAPHIC!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/6\/#BOOKS_WITH_CHARACTERS_WHO_WRITE\" >BOOKS WITH CHARACTERS WHO WRITE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/7\/#HOW_BOOKS_ARE_MADE\" >HOW BOOKS ARE MADE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/7\/#POP-UPS_ACCORDIONS_AND_STORYBOOKS_CREATE_A_BOOK_OF_YOUR_OWN\" >POP-UPS, ACCORDIONS, AND STORYBOOKS: CREATE A BOOK OF YOUR OWN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/8\/#GETTING_PUBLISHED\" >GETTING PUBLISHED!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/writing-facts-fiction-fantasy-and-beyond\/8\/#POEMS_ABOUT_WRITING\" >POEMS ABOUT WRITING<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HOW-TOS_HELPS_AND_ADVICE_FROM_A_MOUSE\"><\/span><strong>HOW-TOS, HELPS, (AND ADVICE FROM A MOUSE)<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aunt-isabel-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aunt-isabel-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aunt-isabel.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Kate Duke\u2019s <em>Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One<\/em> (Puffin, 1994), Penelope \u2013 an enchanting little mouse \u2013 demands a story from her Aunt Isabel after supper. A good story, however, Aunt Isabel explains, needs just the right ingredients \u2013 beginning with \u201ca When and a Where.\u201d With a lot of imaginative input from Penelope, Aunt Isabel helps her weave a perfect plot, complete with setting, characters (valiant Lady Nell, a captive prince, a villainous Odious Mole), conflict, suspense, and a satisfying ending. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/games-for-writing-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/games-for-writing-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/games-for-writing.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Peggy Kaye\u2019s <em>Games for Writing: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Write<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 1995) is a mother lode of creative projects and activities for young writers. Kids, for example, make story maps and pretzel letters, invent acrostic poems, make shape books and family journals, create comics, write a play, or try their hands at producing the longest story ever written. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-were-a-writer-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-were-a-writer-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/if-you-were-a-writer.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Joan Lowery Nixon\u2019s <em>If You Were a Writer<\/em> (Aladdin, 1995), Melia\u2019s mother \u2013 a writer, shown at a typewriter surrounded by sheets of scribbled-upon yellow paper \u2013 explains the writing process. \u201cIf you were a writer you wouldn\u2019t <em>tell<\/em> about what happened in a story. You\u2019d think of words that <em>show<\/em> what is happening.\u201d The conversation is somewhat stilted \u2013 Melia\u2019s mother doesn\u2019t have a lot of pizzazz \u2013 but she does explain the essentials of the writer\u2019s craft. For ages 6-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/look-at-my-book-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Loreen Leedy\u2019s <em>Look at My Book<\/em> (Holiday House, 2005) is a 32-page picture-book account of how to write and illustrate your own book, from choosing genre, characters, and setting, to making a rough draft, revising and refining, preparing a layout, and combining finished pages in a bound book. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-768x970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-1216x1536.jpg 1216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st-1621x2048.jpg 1621w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nothing-ever-90th-st.jpg 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Roni Schotter\u2019s <em>Nothing Ever Happens on 90<sup>th<\/sup> Street<\/em> (Scholastic, 1999), Eva is stumped by her homework assignment, in which she\u2019s been asked to \u201cwrite what you know.\u201d Passing neighbors give helpful writerly advice \u2013 be observant (\u201cThe whole world\u2019s a stage,\u201d says Mr. Sims, the out-of-work actor), use detail and imaginative language, exaggerate, add action \u2013 and finally Eva, by feeding her leftover Danish to the pigeons, sets off a chain of events that leads to a couple falling in love, the invention of a marvelous mousse, the opening of a new restaurant, and a great story. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-the-facts-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-the-facts-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/just-the-facts.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Nancy Loewen\u2019s <em>Just the Facts<\/em> (Picture Window Books, 2009), one of the Writer\u2019s Toolbox series, is a nicely organized 32-page picture-book explanation of how to write a research report. (\u201cFirst you\u2019ll need to pick a topic. You\u2019ll learn what experts have to say about your topic. You\u2019ll take notes. You\u2019ll organize facts. And when you\u2019re done with those steps? THEN you\u2019ll write.\u201d) Each step of the process is clearly explained, using an example of a little girl writing a report about the duck-billed platypus. For ages 7-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Other books in the Writer\u2019s Toolbox series (Picture Window Books, 2009) cover different genres of writing in the same fashion, including playwriting, journaling, letter-writing, poetry, humor, horror stories, picture books, and fairy tales. Titles are <em>Action! Writing Your Own Play<\/em>, <em>It\u2019s All About You: Writing Your Own Journal<\/em>, <em>Make Me Giggle: Writing Your Own Silly Story<\/em>, <em>Once Upon a Time: Writing Your Own Fairy Tale<\/em>, <em>Share a Scare: Writing Your Own Scary Story<\/em>, <em>Show Me a Story: Writing Your Own Picture Book<\/em>, <em>Sincerely Yours: Writing Your Own Letter<\/em>, and <em>Words, Wit, and Wonder: Writing Your Own Poem<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-a-story-Polon-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-a-story-Polon-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-a-story-Polon.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Linda Polon\u2019s <em>Write a Story<\/em> (Good Year Books, 1998) is a 100-page workbook of (very short) story-writing exercises combined with grammar instruction.Covered are types of sentences, parts of speech, synonyms and antonyms, contractions, homophones and homographs, compound words, double negatives, prefixes, and suffixes, punctuation, similes and metaphors, and writing genres. For ages 8-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/s-is-for-story.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Esther Hershenhorn\u2019s <em>S is for Story: A Writer\u2019s Alphabet<\/em> (Sleeping Bear Press, 2009) is a picture-book A-to-Z account of writers\u2019 tools and techniques. Each page has short rhyme about the featured topic, a detailed explanatory paragraph or two, and a quote from a well-known children\u2019s author, such as Andrew Clements, Katherine Paterson, Beverly Cleary, or J.K. Rowling. B, for example, is for Book, C for Character, N for Notebook, W for Word Choice. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writing-magic-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writing-magic-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writing-magic.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gail Carson Levine\u2019s <em>Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly<\/em> (2006) is a conversational and delightful guide for young writers, filled with stories about Levine\u2019s own experience of writing, helpful information about the writing process, and writing exercises. In fact, it starts off \u2013 on the first page of chapter one \u2013 with a list of proposed first sentences that will have any young writer itching to grab a keyboard, pencil, or pen. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spilling-ink-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spilling-ink-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/spilling-ink.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>For the same age group, also see Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer\u2019s\u00a0<em>Spilling Ink: A Young Writer\u2019s Handbook<\/em> (Square Fish, 2010).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writer-s-notebook-a-original-imafyhgzcxejpph4-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writer-s-notebook-a-original-imafyhgzcxejpph4-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writer-s-notebook-a-original-imafyhgzcxejpph4.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ralph Fletcher\u2019s <em>A Writer\u2019s Notebook<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1996) explains how to take notes to serve as seeds for stories, poems, and other writing projects. \u201cA writer\u2019s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer\u2026wherever you are, at any time of day.\u201d Included are samples of notebooks by both published writers and young beginners. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/juicy-writing-inspiration-and-techniques-for-young-writers-original-imaeaecmwgq24ahf-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/juicy-writing-inspiration-and-techniques-for-young-writers-original-imaeaecmwgq24ahf-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/juicy-writing-inspiration-and-techniques-for-young-writers-original-imaeaecmwgq24ahf.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Brigid Lowry\u2019s <em>Juicy Writing<\/em> (Allen &amp; Unwin, 2009) is a mix of inspiration and technical advice for young writers, with exercises that include such challenges as inventing a new religion, writing about a day in the life of a shoe, or re-casting your life as a fairy tale. A final chapter includes a resource list of websites and writer\u2019s organizations. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/models-for-writers-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/models-for-writers-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/models-for-writers.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz, <em>Models for Writers<\/em> (Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2012) is a collection of short essays, each accompanied by discussion questions, a vocabulary list, and related writing suggestions. The essays are used to illustrate technical aspects of the writing process \u2013 such as organization, beginnings and endings, transition, tone, figurative language &#8211;\u00a0 or as examples of various essay types (narration, process analysis, comparison and contrast, cause and effect). An excellent and challenging resource for high-school-level students and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner-641x1024.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner-768x1226.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner-962x1536.jpg 962w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The_Art_of_Fiction_by_John_Gardner.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>John Gardner\u2019s <em>The Art of Fiction: Notes on the Craft for Young Writers<\/em> (Vintage, 1991) is a classic of its kind, filled with astute observations on what to think about when writing fiction, what to watch out for, and what to remember \u2013 namely that \u201cthere are no rules for real fiction.\u201d For teens and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pocket-muse-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pocket-muse-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/pocket-muse.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Monica Wood\u2019s <em>The Pocket Muse<\/em> (Writer\u2019s Digest Books, 2004) \u2013 subtitled \u201cideas &amp; inspiration for writing\u201d \u2013 is a cleverly designed compilation of helpful hints, writing prompts, and creative thinking exercises, packed with quotations, photographs, and examples. Also see <em>The Pocket Muse 2<\/em> (2009). For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-if.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, <em>What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers<\/em> (William Morrow, 1991) is filled with excellent exercises on all aspects of writing: story beginnings, journaling and memory, characterization, point of view, dialogue, plot, story elements, resolutions, mechanics, writing games, and \u201cLearning from the Greats.\u201d For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/books-that-teach-kids-to-write-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/books-that-teach-kids-to-write-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/books-that-teach-kids-to-write.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Marianne Saccardi\u2019s 178-page <em>Books That Teach Kids to Write<\/em> (Libraries Unlimited, 2011) is a treasure trove of suggestions, activities, and information on writing for kids in grades K-12 \u2013 all illustrated with excellent examples from literature, and accompanied by lengthy annotated book and reference lists. Various book sections deal with instilling a love for language, ideas for sparking reluctant writers, ways of creating a unique writer\u2019s voice, approaches to inventing believable and memorable characters, modes of non-fiction writing, and suggestions for enhancing writing through drama. Appendices include reproducible activity sheets and a bibliography of books featuring characters who write.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writers-inc-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writers-inc-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/writers-inc.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, and Verne Meyer, <em>Writers INC<\/em>. (Write Source, 2006) is a fat (600+ pages), nicely designed and organized tome on the writing process intended for high-school-level students. The book covers the writing process, forms of writing (personal, subject, creative, persuasive, academic, literary, research, workplace), writing tools, and proofreading. A useful reference.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewritesource.com\/\">Write Source<\/a> for more information on student writing handbooks, a list of writing topics categorized by grade level (1-12), student writing models, research links, and style criteria.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/national-writing-project.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwp.org\">National Writing Project<\/a> (NWP) is a national network promoting writing for students of all ages, from preschool to college. The website lists resources on all aspects of writing, including activities and projects for young writers, informational articles and essays, and research publications. There\u2019s also an online bookstore devoted to writing education.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\">ReadWriteThink<\/a> has a long and excellent list of lesson plans for writers, categorized by grade level. Enter &#8220;Creative Writing&#8221; in the search box, for example, for projects in which kids devise stories to accompany wordless picture books using an online interactive story map; invent alternative endings for familiar books; investigate magic realism; write fanfiction; and much more. For a range of ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learner.org\/\">Annenburg Learner<\/a> for numerous workshops on teaching writing and assorted courses for students. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learner.org\/series\/interactive-elements-of-a-story\/\">Elements of a Story<\/a>, for example, is an interactive program introducing setting, characters, sequence, exposition, conclict, climax, and resolution using the example of Cinderella.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/will-write-for-food-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/will-write-for-food-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/will-write-for-food.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Want to write a cookbook? Dianne Jacob\u2019s <em>Will Write for Food<\/em> (DaCapo Lifelong Books, 2010) is a complete guide to food-writing, with writing exercises, examples, background information, suggestions for getting published, and a resource list. The book is aimed at adults, but could be the source of a great parent\/child project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>IDEAS AND STORY STARTERS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Enchanted Learning\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/essay\/writing.shtml\">Writing Activities<\/a> has printable writing prompt worksheets, draw-and-write pages, brainstorming worksheets, make-your-own writing prompt pages, thought bubble and speech balloon pages, and a long list of essay projects for elementary-level students. Only site members can actually print the pages. (A single-family membership costs $20\/year.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>At Scholastic\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/story-starters\/\">StoryStarters<\/a>, visitors choose a genre (Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Scrambler), a grade level (K-1, 2, 3, 4-6), a format (notebook, letter, newspaper, postcard), generate a story scenario, and then create an online story (with an option for illustrations). Examples: \u201cWrite about a thrilling experience for a graceful reindeer who accidentally sets the science fair on fire.\u201d \u201cDescribe a celebration for a tricky pirate who rides a wild boar.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1000-creative-writing-prompts-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1000-creative-writing-prompts-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1000-creative-writing-prompts.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Bryan Cohen\u2019s <em>1000 Creative Writing Prompts<\/em> (CreateSpace, 2011) is a 132-page collection of story starters, grouped under such categories as \u201cHolidays,\u201d \u201cSeasons,\u201d \u201cFor the Kids,\u201d \u201cArt,\u201d \u201cSports, \u201cThe Outdoors,\u201d and \u201cThe Weird.\u201d Adaptable for all ages. Also see Cohen&#8217;s <em>1000 Character Writing Prompts<\/em> (CreateSpace, 2012), jumpstarts for inventing a wide range of characters, from superheroes and sidekicks to zombies, monsters, wicked stepmothers, and lawyers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/642-things-to-write-about-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/642-things-to-write-about-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/642-things-to-write-about.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By A.S. Newman and P.C. Trauth, <em>365 Things to Write About!<\/em> (TNA Publishing, 2011) consists of 365 lined pages with a short writing prompt printed at the top of each. Examples include <em>an airplane<\/em>, <em>Alaska<\/em>, <em>aliens<\/em>, <em>the color red<\/em>, <em>a galaxy<\/em>, <em>a potion<\/em>, <em>quicksand<\/em>, <em>the Taj Mahal<\/em>, <em>a trap door<\/em>. Adaptable for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Want more? Check out <em>642 Things to Write About<\/em> (Chronicle Books, 2012).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture-Yourself-Writing-series-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture-Yourself-Writing-series-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture-Yourself-Writing-series-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture-Yourself-Writing-series-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Picture-Yourself-Writing-series.jpg 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>From Capstone Press, the Fact Finders series is a collection of 32-page books \u201cUsing Photos to Inspire Writing.\u201d Titles are <em>Picture Yourself Writing Fiction<\/em> (Sheila Griffin Llanas, 2011), <em>Picture Yourself Writing Nonfiction<\/em> (Jennifer Fandel, 2011), <em>Picture Yourself Writing Poetry<\/em> (Laura Purdie Salas, 2011), and <em>Picture Yourself Writing Drama <\/em>(Barbara A. Tyler, 2011). Each has helpful instructions for writers, a reading list, and a collection of terrific color photographs to serve as inspirational story starters. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-what-you-see-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-what-you-see-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/write-what-you-see.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Hank Kellner\u2019s <em>Write What You See<\/em> (Prufrock Press, 2009) contains 99 great black-and-white photographs to be used as writing prompts, each with a quotation, a short list of questions to consider, and suggestions for approaches or possible opening lines. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>At <a href=\"http:\/\/creativewritingprompts.com\/\">Creative Writing Prompts<\/a>, point your cursor at a number (1-346) for a writing exercise or story prompt. Examples: \u201cWhy would a speaker be afraid of cats?\u201d \u201cUse all these words in a poem: crash, crumpled paper, straw, gravel, ochre.\u201d \u201cWrite a story about greed with a CEO as the main character and a chess board as a key object.\u201d For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From The Teacher\u2019s Corner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theteacherscorner.net\/daily-writing-prompts\/\">Daily Writing Prompts<\/a> has a writing suggestion for every day of the year, based on holidays, anniversaries, historical events, and the birthdays of famous people. Adaptable for a range of ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-writing-prompt.com\/\">Daily Writing Prompt<\/a> is a terrific source of prompts and story starters, variously categorized by genre or topic, or based on the calendar. Included are pages of writing prompts based on picture books, writing prompts paired with video clips, \u00a0journaling suggestions, and student portfolio samples. There&#8217;s also an option to publish your work online.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funenglishgames.com\/writinggames\/story.html\">Story Writing Game for Kids<\/a> is\u00a0 a Mad-Libs-style writing exercise is which kids choose words to generate a ghost, romance, or spy story.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.languageisavirus.com\/writing-games.html#.UQ13I6vtiiP\">Language Is a Virus<\/a> has a long list of creative writing games and aids, among them a Character Name Generator and a Writing Prompts feature.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/category\/lesson-plans\/\">New York Times Learning Network<\/a> is a great source of innovative lesson plans, categorized by academic discipline.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1200x675_nameplate-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1200x675_nameplate-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1200x675_nameplate-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1200x675_nameplate-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1200x675_nameplate.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Also from the New York Times, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/20\/learning\/lesson-plans\/650-prompts-for-narrative-and-personal-writing.html\">650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>INSPIRING IMAGINATION<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Of course, almost any book is an inspiration for the imagination&#8230;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-839x1024.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-1259x1536.jpg 1259w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frederick-1679x2048.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Leo Lionni\u2019s <em>Frederick<\/em> (Dragonfly Books, 1973), while all the other field mice scurry about collecting food for the winter, Frederick \u2013 a talented and imaginative little mouse &#8211; dreamily sits, watches, and thinks, explaining that he is gathering color, warmth, and words for the cold days ahead. Finally winter comes, and as food stores run low and spirits droop, Frederick revives them all with his wonderful poems and stories filled with colorful images of the spring and summer. For ages 3 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/its-a-secret-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/its-a-secret-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/its-a-secret-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/its-a-secret-768x976.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/its-a-secret.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In John Burningham\u2019s <em>It\u2019s a Secret<\/em> (Candlewick, 2009), Marie-Elaine wonders where her cat, Malcolm, spends the night \u2013 and discovers, on a magical journey, that Malcolm, wearing a hat with a plume, celebrates at midnight parties with the Queen of the Cats. (Where do <em>you<\/em> think cats go at night? Invent your own story.) For ages 3 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-1171x1536.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss-1561x2048.jpg 1561w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mulberry-st-SEuss.jpg 1906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Dr. Seuss\u2019s rollicking <em>And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street<\/em> (Random House Books for Young Readers, 1989) is a tale of imagination run amok: Marco hasn\u2019t seen anything on the way home from school but a horse and a wagon (\u201cThat <em>can\u2019t<\/em> be my story. That\u2019s only a <em>start<\/em>.\u201d) \u2013 so he proceeds to add imaginative embellishments, each more fabulous than the last. Marco is a born writer. For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Learn more about <em>And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street<\/em> at NPR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/01\/24\/145471724\/how-dr-seuss-got-his-start-on-mulberry-street\">How Dr. Seuss Got His Start<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-I-spent-summer-vacation-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mark Teague\u2019s rhyming picture-book <em>How I Spent My Summer Vacation<\/em> (Dragonfly Books, 1997), young Wallace Bleff \u2013 giving a class report on a blah, but classic, back-to-school writing topic \u2013 explains that he was sent out west for the summer to recover from a too-wild imagination. His story then spirals into an improbable (but cool) account of a kidnapping by cowboys and a barbecue threatened by a cattle stampede, in which \u201cKid Bleff\u201d heroically saves the day. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/henrys-amazing-imagination-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/henrys-amazing-imagination-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/henrys-amazing-imagination.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Nancy Carlson\u2019s <em>Henry\u2019s Amazing Imagination<\/em> (Puffin, 2010), Henry \u2013 an extremely imaginative mouse \u2013 regales his class at show-and-tell with fabulous stories of pet dinosaurs, giant snowmen, and visiting aliens. Accused of lying, Henry is crushed, until he discovers how to channel his amazing imagination into writing stories. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/weslandia-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/weslandia-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/weslandia-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/weslandia.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Writing is often a matter of creating imaginative new worlds. A wonderful example of this is found in Paul Fleischman\u2019s <em>Weslandia<\/em> (Candlewick, 2002), in which young Wesley \u2013 an ususual boy who dislikes pizza and refuses to shave half his head like all the other boys \u2013 spends his summer vacation creating a whole new civilization. (Try it.) A wonderful read for ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mysteries-of-Harris-Burdick_01-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mysteries-of-Harris-Burdick_01-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mysteries-of-Harris-Burdick_01.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Chris Van Allsburg\u2019s <em>The Mysteries of Harris Burdick<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, 1984) is a marvelous picture book: eerie, evocative, inspiring, and utterly fascinating.\u00a0 It consists of fourteen enchanting black-and-white pictures, each with a mysterious title and line or two of text. \u201cMr. Linden\u2019s Library,\u201d for example, shows a girl asleep with an open book, from which a leafy vine is now sprouting.\u00a0 \u201c<em>He had warned her about the book<\/em>,\u201d the text reads. \u201c<em>Now it was too late<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cUninvited Guests\u201d pictures a cellar: at the bottom of the stairs, light from a window falls on a tiny wooden door. (\u201c<em>His heart was pounding. He was sure he had seen the doorknob turn<\/em>.\u201d) For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From ReadWriteThink, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\/classroom-resources\/lesson-plans\/mysteries-harris-burdick-using-30606.html\">The Mysteries of Harris Burdick<\/a> is a lesson plan in which kids write mystery stories based on the pictures in the book.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/If-by-Perry-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/If-by-Perry-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/If-by-Perry.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Sarah Perry\u2019s <em>If\u2026<\/em> (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995) pairs a simple text with fascinating surrealistic paintings: <em>If zebras had stars and stripes\u2026If mice were hair\u2026If spiders could read Braille\u2026If cats could fly\u2026If the moon were square\u2026<\/em>Irresistible. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imagine-a-night-9780689852183_hr-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imagine-a-night-9780689852183_hr-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imagine-a-night-9780689852183_hr-1013x1024.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imagine-a-night-9780689852183_hr-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/imagine-a-night-9780689852183_hr.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Sarah L. Thomson\u2019s magical Imagine books \u2013 <em>Imagine a Night<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003), <em>Imagine a Day<\/em> (2005), and <em>Imagine a Place<\/em> (2008) \u2013 illustrated with evocative and surreal paintings by Ron Gonsalves, are wonderful inspirations for stories, as moonlit reflections of pine trees turn into ghostly girls with lanterns; a toy train becomes life-sized; and sunflowers have human faces.\u00a0 For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/storymatic-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/storymatic-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/storymatic.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestorymatic.com\">The Storymatic<\/a> \u2013 \u201csix trillion stories in one little box\u201d \u2013 is touted as a writing prompt, a teaching tool, a parlor game, and a toy.\u00a0 It consists of a box of 540 cards in two colors. Players draw two gold cards to create a main character \u2013 say, \u201croyalty,\u201d \u201cgravedigger ,\u201d \u201ccaretaker of an elephant,\u201d or \u201cpig\u201d \u2013 and two copper-colored cards as story starters, such as \u201cinvitation from a stranger,\u201d \u201cburning house,\u201d \u201chandcuffs,\u201d \u201cpet is behaving strangely,\u201d or \u201ctalking doll.\u201d The challenge: to write, tell, or co-invent a story based on your cards. Thought-provoking and addictive for ages 12 and up. Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Storymatic-Kids\/dp\/B0087GB08U\">The Storymatic Kids!<\/a> for ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Think-ets_1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Think-ets_1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Think-ets_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkets.com\/\">Think-ets<\/a> \u2013 the \u201cTiny Trinket Imagination Game\u201d \u2013 consists of a pouch or box of assorted (and entrancing) teeny objects: a miniature compass, a bottle, a gold ring, a shell, a polar bear, an airplane, a bird\u2019s egg, a thimble. Combinations of the objects serve as story starters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-cubes-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-cubes-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/story-cubes.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imgres-43.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4168\" title=\"imgres-43\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imgres-43-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>From Gamewright, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storycubes.com\/\">Rory\u2019s Story Cubes<\/a> consists of nine dice, each with imagination-sparking images on each face \u2013 for example, a key, a magic wand, a mask, an apple, a shooting star. Roll them for story-generating combinations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>DISCOVERING VOICE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In writing, voice is more than the thing you use to talk, sing, and yell \u2013 it\u2019s a unique expression of personality, the creative quirk that gives color and pizzazz to language.<\/p>\n<p><em>The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter \u2013 \u2018tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. (<\/em>Mark Twain)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/show-dont-tell-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/show-dont-tell-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/show-dont-tell.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Josephine Nobisso\u2019s <em>Show; Don\u2019t Tell!<\/em> (Gingerbread House, 2004), illustrated with wonderful blocky folk-art-ish animals by Eva Montanari, features a writing lion who demonstrates how to choose just the right nouns and adjectives to best communicate a story. For ages 8-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discovering-voice-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discovering-voice-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/discovering-voice.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Nancy Dean\u2019s <em>Discovering Voice<\/em> (Maupin House, 2006) a collection of creative writing lessons aimed at analyzing and developing a writer\u2019s voice, using as examples excerpts from the works of published authors, paired with discussion questions, activities, and writing projects. Topics covered include diction, detail, figurative language, imagery, syntax, and tone. An exercise on diction, for example, begins with a quote from Virginia Hamilton\u2019s <em>M.C. Higgins the Great<\/em>: \u201cM.C. heard him scramble and strain his way up the slope of Sarah\u2019s mountain.\u201d Visualize it, Dean says. \u201cHow would it change your mental picture if Hamilton had written: \u2018M.C. heard him walk up the slope of Sarah\u2019s mountain\u2019?\u201d An excellent and thought-provoking resource for ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voice-lessons-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voice-lessons-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voice-lessons.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Also by Nancy Dean, see <em>Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone<\/em> (Maupin House, 2000), using examples from a wide range of well-known writers, among them Barbara Kingsolver, E.B. White, Annie Proulx, Seamus Heaney, John Steinbeck, William F. Buckley, Elie Wiesel, and Langston Hughes. For high-school-level students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/finding-your-writers-voice-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/finding-your-writers-voice-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/finding-your-writers-voice.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Thaisa Frank and Dorothy Wall, <em>Finding Your Writer\u2019s Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction <\/em>(St. Martin\u2019s Griffin, 1996) explains that voice is what differentiates one writer from all the others in the world. The book discusses \u201craw\u201d voice, narrative voice, and varying characters\u2019 voices, with writing exercises and many examples from published authors. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Characters need distinctive voices too. From Wordplay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com\/2012\/04\/how-to-create-distinctive-character.html\">How to Create Distinctive Character Voices<\/a> has a handful of exercises for experimenting with character voice. (What would J.K. Rowling\u2019s Professor Snape say about his first glimpse of Disneyland?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg-1338x2048.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-bfg.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Need a good example of character voice? One of my favorites is that of the Big Friendly Giant of Roald Dahl\u2019s <em>The BFG<\/em> (Puffin, 2007), who \u2013 once heard \u2013 can never possibly be mistaken for anyone else: \u201cBy ringo, your head must be so full of frogsquinkers and buzzwangles, I is frittered if I know how you can think at all!\u201d (Now there\u2019s a <em>voice<\/em>.) For ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>POINT OF VIEW<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There are books told from the points of view of dolls, toy soldiers, and stuffed rabbits; of horses, dogs, cats, birds, and mice; and, of course, of all possible kinds of people.<\/p>\n<p><em>You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view\u2026until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. (<\/em>Harper Lee, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird)<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs-1232x1536.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/true-story-of-3-pigs.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jon Scieszka\u2019s\u00a0<em>The True Story of the Three Little Pigs<\/em>\u00a0(Puffin, 1996) is the familiar classic told from the point of view of the villain. The Wolf \u2013 Alexander T. Wolf, that is \u2013 insists he\u2019s been wronged: he only wanted to borrow a cup of sugar from the pigs to make his grandmother a birthday cake. And all the huffing and puffing? He had a cold. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voices-in-the-park-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voices-in-the-park-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voices-in-the-park-863x1024.jpg 863w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voices-in-the-park-768x912.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/voices-in-the-park.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Anthony Browne\u2019s <em>Voices in the Park<\/em> (Dorling Kindersley, 2001), a snobbish society mother, her buttoned-up son, Charles, and their pedigreed Labrador retriever visit the park at the same time as an unemployed father, his daughter, Smudge, and their rambunctious mongrel. The story is told in four different voices, from four very different points of view. All the characters are anthropomorphic apes. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-1108x1536.jpg 1108w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree-1477x2048.jpg 1477w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wishtree.jpg 1677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Katherine Applegate&#8217;s <em>Wishtree<\/em> (Feiwel and Friends, 2017) is told from the point of view of a tree &#8211; the wise and kindly Red, an oak. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-terupt-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-terupt-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-terupt.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Rob Buyea\u2019s <em>Because of Mr. Terupt<\/em> (Yearling, 2011) is the story of a life-changing teacher and a disastrous accident, told from the varying points of view of seven very different fifth-grade students. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/the-class-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/the-class-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/the-class.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Frances O\u2019Roark Dowell\u2019s <em>The Class<\/em> (Atheneum\/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2020) is a story told in 20 different distinct voices from Ms. Herrerra\u2019s sixth-grade class. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bull-run-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bull-run-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bull-run-664x1024.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bull-run-768x1185.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bull-run.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Paul Fleishman\u2019s <em>Bull Run<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1995) is the story of the Civil War, told from the points of view of sixteen different people, with sixteen widely different attitudes and backgrounds. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seed-folks-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seed-folks-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seed-folks-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seed-folks-768x1236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/seed-folks.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Paul Fleischman\u2019s <em>Seedfolks<\/em> (HarperTrophy, 2004) is told in thirteen different voices, beginning with nine-year-old Kim, daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, who plants some bean seeds in a vacant lot. Thus begins a community garden, with its growing cast of multicultural narrators, each with a different array of goals, problems, and perspectives. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/black-beauty-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/black-beauty-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/black-beauty.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Anna Sewall\u2019s classic <em>Black Beauty<\/em>, available in many editions, was originally published in 1877. The story of Black Beauty\u2019s life, from pampered carriage horse to abused cab horse to peaceful retirement, is narrated in the first person from the point of view of the horse himself. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penelopiad-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penelopiad-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penelopiad.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Margaret Atwood\u2019s <em>Penelopiad<\/em> (Canongate, 2006) is a new view of the Odyssey, told from the perspective of long-suffering Penelope and her twelve maids, the latter all hanged by Odysseus when he returned home. (\u201cI knew he was tricky and a liar, I just didn\u2019t think he would play his tricks and try out his lies on me,\u201d Penelope says.) For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>GOING GRAPHIC!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/man-in-ceiling-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/man-in-ceiling-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/man-in-ceiling.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The main character of Jules Feiffer\u2019s <em>The Man in the Ceiling<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1995) is young Jimmy Jibbets, who loves making comic books and wants to be a cartoonist someday \u2013 despite a total lack of support from his family. A witty take on art and the human condition for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781524772840_p0_v2_s1200x630-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781524772840_p0_v2_s1200x630-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781524772840_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Kenneth Oppel&#8217;s <em>Inkling<\/em> (Yearling, 2020), Ethan&#8217;s graphic artist dad has writer&#8217;s block and Ethan &#8211; who can&#8217;t draw &#8211; is supposed to be illustrating a class project. Then Inkling &#8211; a helpful and creative blob of ink &#8211; leaps off the page of his dad&#8217;s sketchbook. Creativity flourishes &#8211; until Inkling is kidnapped. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781984815163_p0_v1_s550x406-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781984815163_p0_v1_s550x406-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9781984815163_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Rob Harrell&#8217;s <em>Wink<\/em> (Dial Books, 2020), Ross Maloy struggles with 7th grade and a rare form of eye cancer &#8211; while forming a rock-&#8216;n-roll band and writing his epic comicstrip, <em>Batpig<\/em>. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-for-kids-comic-strips-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-for-kids-comic-strips-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/art-for-kids-comic-strips.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Art Roche\u2019s <em>Art for Kids: Comic Strips<\/em> (Sterling, 2011) has complete instructions for creating 3-panel comic strips, variously covering story line, characters, layout and design, and the tricky business of making an effective joke. For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-can-do-a-graphic-novel-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-can-do-a-graphic-novel-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-can-do-a-graphic-novel-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-can-do-a-graphic-novel-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/you-can-do-a-graphic-novel.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Barbara Slate\u2019s 200-page <em>You Can Do a Graphic Novel<\/em> (Alpha Books, 2010) is a guide to graphic novels in the form of a graphic novel. It covers all the basics, including drawing, creating characters, plots, and layouts. One chapter is devoted to samples of student work. For ages 11 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.penguingroup.com\/static\/pdf\/teachersguides\/you_can_do_a_graphic_novel_TG.pdf\">You Can Do a Graphic Novel Teacher\u2019s Guide<\/a> is a detailed guide to accompany the book, with instructions, suggestions, and printable worksheets and templates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-1232x1536.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story-1643x2048.jpg 1643w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/99-ways-to-tell-story.jpg 2006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Matt Madden\u2019s <em>99 Ways to Tell a Story<\/em> (Chamberlain Brothers, 2005), Madden tells the same story in 99 single-page comics, each time in a different way. The story isn\u2019t much \u2013 a man goes to the refrigerator and then forgets what he\u2019s looking for \u2013 but the possibilities are fascinating, as Madden adds characters and points of view, and experiments with flashbacks, free verse, color effects, art styles, page design, close-ups and long-shots. A great potential project for ages 14 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/drawingwordsandwritingpictures-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/drawingwordsandwritingpictures-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/drawingwordsandwritingpictures-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/drawingwordsandwritingpictures-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/drawingwordsandwritingpictures.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, <em>Drawing Words and Writing Pictures<\/em> (First Second, 2008) is a 15-lesson all-in-one-book course on making comics, manga, and graphic novels. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-comics.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Scott McCloud\u2019s <em>Making Comics<\/em> (William Morrow, 2006) is a comic-book-style explanation of how drawings can be used to tell a story, covering everything from the \u201creader\u2019s camera\u201d to facial expressions, figure drawing, word balloons, background, tools and techniques, and publishing markets. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Donna Young, at <a href=\"http:\/\/donnayoung.org\/art\/comics.htm\">Comic Strip Printables<\/a>, visitors can choose among many different cartoon panel templates. Print your own comic-strip and graphic-novel paper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>BOOKS WITH CHARACTERS WHO WRITE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9780763689032_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9780763689032_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/9780763689032_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David Ezra Stein\u2019s\u00a0<em>Interrupting Chicken<\/em>\u00a0(Candlewick, 2010), a patient father rooster (in spectacles and carpet slippers) tucks his offspring, a little red chicken, into bed and attempts to read a bedtime story \u2013 only to be continually interrupted by his daughter, who can\u2019t bear the suspense. \u201cOut jumped a little red chicken,\u201d she cries, as her father reaches a crucial point in\u00a0<em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, \u201cand she said \u2018DON\u2019T GO IN! SHE\u2019S A WITCH!\u2019 So Hansel and Gretel didn\u2019t. THE END!\u201d Finally the little red chicken decides to write a story of her own, only to be interrupted by her tired father\u2019s snores. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-768x988.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-1194x1536.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens-1593x2048.jpg 1593w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-plot-chickens.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Henrietta, of Mary Ann Auch and Herm Auch\u2019s <em>The Plot Chickens<\/em> (Holiday House, 2010), is a very bookish chicken who decides, since she so loves reading, that it would be fun to write a book. Unfortunately it\u2019s rejected for publication \u2013 and when Henrietta self-publishes, it gets a terrible review. Henrietta is thoroughly discouraged \u2013 until she discovers that the children at the library have voted her book one of the best of the year. There\u2019s a lot of wordplay based on the word \u201cegg.\u201d For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-1405x1536.jpg 1405w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rocket-writes-1874x2048.jpg 1874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Tad Hills\u2019s <em>Rocket Writes a Story<\/em> (Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2012), Rocket \u2013 with the help of the little yellow bird, his teacher in <em>How Rocket Learned to Read<\/em> (2010) \u2013 creates a wonderful word tree, hung with all his favorite words (feather, tree, snail, rock, bug, book, bird, dog). Then he decides to write a story using his word collection and \u2013 though he hits some bumps on the way (there\u2019s crossing out and growling) \u2013 he eventually, adorably, succeeds. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxs-words-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxs-words-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxs-words.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Kate Banks\u2019s <em>Max\u2019s Words<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2006), Max\u2019s brother Benjamin collects stamps and brother Karl collects coins \u2013 so Max, who wants a collection too, decides to collect words. (\u201cVery funny, Max,\u201d said Karl.) Max begins with small words cut from magazines and newspapers, then proceeds to bigger and better words, and finally begins to arrange them to make stories. The word illustrations are wonderful, in a range of sizes and fonts. Some are miniature concrete poems: \u201chungry\u201d has a bite taken out of it; \u201cpark\u201d is surrounded by trees; \u201cbaseball\u201d is shaped like a baseball bat. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/library-mouse-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/library-mouse-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/library-mouse.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ralph, the mouse of Daniel Kirk\u2019s <em>Library Mouse<\/em> (Harry N. Abrams, 2007), lives behind the reference book section in the library and spends all his time reading. He enjoys books so much that he eventually decides to write one about himself \u2013 <em>Squeak! A Mouse\u2019s Life<\/em> \u2013 using a little mirror to draw his self-portrait. He follows it up with a mystery story (<em>The Lonely Cheese and the Mystery of Mouse Mansion<\/em>) and soon is so popular that the librarian invites him to \u201cMeet the Author\u201d day. When the children arrive, however, they find \u2013 instead of the author \u2013 a series of blank books and mirrors to help them write books of their own. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/hnabooks\/docs\/librarymousefinal\">The World of Library Mouse<\/a> is a teaching guide with activities to accompany Daniel Kirk\u2019s Library Mouse books.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/obstinate-pen-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/obstinate-pen-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/obstinate-pen.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Frank W. Dormer\u2019s <em>The Obstinate Pen<\/em> (Henry Holt and Company, 2012), Uncle Flood\u2019s new pen has a mind of its own. When he tries to write \u201cThe following story is all true,\u201d the pen \u2013 who doesn\u2019t believe him &#8211; instead inscribes \u201cYou have a BIG nose.\u201d Uncle Flood, frustrated, finally chucks the pen out the window, where it ends up passing through the hands of several grown-ups, forcing each of them to write something far more honest (and ruder) than they had planned. Finally it reaches the hands of Flood\u2019s story-writing little nephew Horace, who knows how to make it cooperate. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Once-Upon-a-Baby-Brother-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Once-Upon-a-Baby-Brother-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Once-Upon-a-Baby-Brother.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Sarah Sullivan\u2019s <em>Once Upon a Baby Brother<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2010), Lizzie&#8217;s story-telling talent is admired by all \u2013 until her baby brother Marvin comes along. Lizzie, feeling neglected, begins writing stories about a beautiful princess and a villain \u2013 Marvin as ugly prince, fearsome Marvinosaurus, dangerous Marvinfish. Challenged to write a comic book by her teacher, however, Lizzie suffers from writer\u2019s block \u2013 until Marvin returns from a visit to Grandma. Once she realizes that she loves her little brother after all, inspiration strikes, and she creates \u201cThe Amazing Adventures of Marvin (with Big George the Wonder Dog).\u201d For ages 4-9.<\/p>\n<p>Project: try using Sarah&#8217;s Marvin snippets as story starters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ralph-tells-a-story-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ralph-tells-a-story-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ralph-tells-a-story.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\u201cStories are everywhere!\u201d Ralph\u2019s teacher insists \u2013 but Ralph, of Abbie Hanlon\u2019s <em>Ralph Tells a Story<\/em> (Amazon Children\u2019s Publishing, 2012) has a massive case of writer\u2019s block. Finally Ralph remembers finding an inchworm in the park, which \u2013 with the help of questions from classmates \u2013 turns into a lively story. By the end of the book, Ralph\u2019s endless stack dismal papers with nothing on them but his name has turned into an entire library of books, with titles like \u201cWhen Milk Came Out of My Nose\u201d and \u201cThe Scariest Hamster.\u201d For ages 6-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-824x1024.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-1236x1536.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story-1648x2048.jpg 1648w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-best-story.jpg 2012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The narrator of Eileen Spinelli\u2019s <em>The Best Story<\/em> (Dial, 2008) wants to win the library\u2019s story-writing contest: the prize is a roller coaster ride with her favorite author. Her brother Tim thinks the best stories are packed with action \u2013 but adding a pirate, a tornado, and a great white shark doesn\u2019t seem to do the trick. Her father claims the best stories are funny; her Aunt Jane wants a tearjerker; her cousin Anika wants romance. Finally her mother suggests that she write from her heart \u2013 and finally she comes up with a \u201cbest story\u201d all her own. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-1036x1536.jpg 1036w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/harriet-the-spy.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Harriet, of Louise Fitzhugh\u2019s <em>Harriet the Spy<\/em> (Yearling, 2001) plans to be a famous author someday \u2013 and as practice she keeps a notebook\u00a0 in which she writes down observations and opinions derived from spying on neighbors and classmates. When Harriet\u2019s classmates get their hands on the notebook and read Harriet\u2019s comments, they\u2019re furious, and form a Spy Catcher Club devoted to making Harriet\u2019s life miserable.\u00a0 Harriet eventually works it with out, with advice from her nanny, Ole Golly, and her performance as editor of the school newspaper. For ages 8 and up. (For grown-ups who miss Harriet, see <em>Miss Buncle\u2019s Book<\/em> below.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116493\/\">Harriet the Spy<\/a> (1996) is rated PG.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Learn more about the book at NPR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=87779452\">Unapologetically Harriet, the Misfit Spy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-1045x1536.jpg 1045w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks-1394x2048.jpg 1394w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/penderwicks.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jeanne Birdsall\u2019s <em>The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy<\/em> (Yearling, 2007), Rosalind, Skye, Jane, Batty (age four, who wears butterfly wings) and their Latin-quoting botanist father vacation at a cottage next to a massive estate, where they meet two rabbits, the dreadful Mrs. Tifton, her even more dreadful boyfriend (Dexter Dupree), and Mrs. Tifton\u2019s very nice son, Jeffrey, whom they save from military boarding school. In honor of which, ten-year-old Jane, an indefatigable writer and author of the exciting Sabrina Starr novels, writes her latest in which Sabrina Rescues a Boy. For ages 8 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beginning-muddle-end-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beginning-muddle-end-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/beginning-muddle-end.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Avi\u2019s <em>A Beginning, A Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing<\/em> (Harcourt Children\u2019s Books, 2008) \u2013 charmingly illustrated by Tricia Tusa &#8211; features Avon, a very well-read snail, and his friend Edward the ant, characters who first appeared in <em>The End of the Beginning<\/em> (2004). Now Avon is determined to write a book \u2013 which he proceeds to muddle through, with a list of writer\u2019s rules, a lot of clever word play, and some not-always-helpful help from Edward. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/landry-news-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/landry-news-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/landry-news.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Andrew Clements\u2019s <em>The Landry News<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000) is the story of a young writer making a difference. New girl Cara Landry, upset that her fifth-grade teacher, Mr. Larson, \u201cdoes not teach,\u201d begins publishing a newspaper, <em>The Landry News<\/em>, and criticizes his behavior in her first editorial. Soon the entire class is involved with the newspaper; Mr. Larson, fired up, is teaching again; and the school principal and the town are involved in a struggle involving the First Amendment. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anne-of-green-gables-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anne-of-green-gables-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/anne-of-green-gables.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The title character of L.M. Montgomery\u2019s <em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em>, originally published in 1908, is bookish, dramatic, and trouble-prone orphan Anne Shirley, who writes overblown romances but ultimately realizes where her heart lies &#8211; and writes a successful book about the life she loves in Avonlea. Seven sequels. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Of the many film versions, Kevin Sullivan\u2019s award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088727\/\">Anne of Green Gables<\/a>, with Megan Follows, Richard Farnsworth, and Colleen Dewhurst, is generally thought to be the most true to the books.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14984\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-1045x1536.jpg 1045w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street-1393x2048.jpg 1393w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/water-street.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Following on <em>Nory Ryan\u2019s Song<\/em> and <em>Maggie\u2019s Door<\/em>, Patricia Reilly Giff\u2019s <em>Water Street<\/em> (Yearling, 2008) continues the tale of Irish immigrants in 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century America. The year is 1875; the Brooklyn Bridge is going up; and main characters 13-year-old Bird Mallon and Thomas Neary live in the same Brooklyn tenement building. Bird wants to be a midwife and healer, like her mother; Thomas wants to be a writer.\u00a0 (\u201cThomas had made himself a notebook with cardboard covers and sewed the pages, but if the book wasn\u2019t handy, he used anything, paper bags from the market, or even the edges of the newspaper. He wrote stories about anything he saw, and he saw a lot.\u201d) For ages 9-13.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-768x1143.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-1033x1536.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli-1377x2048.jpg 1377w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/after-eli.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Rebecca Rupp\u2019s <em>After Eli<\/em> (Candlewick, 2012), 14-year-old Danny struggles to come to terms with the death of his older brother by writing in his Book of the Dead, in which he chronicles how people die, and why. Starred reviews from <em>Kirkus<\/em>, <em>Booklist<\/em>, and <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em>; winner of a Parent&#8217;s Choice Gold Award. For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-everything-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-everything-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/book-of-everything.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Guus Kuijer\u2019s award-winning <em>The Book of Everything<\/em> (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2006), Thomas \u2013 a very unusual nine-year-old, who sees things no one else does, loves one-legged Eliza, and has heart-to-heart talks with Jesus \u2013 comes to terms with life with his abusive father by recording all his thoughts in his <em>Book of Everything<\/em>. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-women-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-women-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/little-women.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Louisa May Alcott\u2019s classic <em>Little Women<\/em>, originally published in 1868, is available in many editions. Everyone\u2019s favorite character is creative tomboy Jo, who writes family plays, short stories, and a newspaper, and eventually \u2013 after a couple of false starts, and with the advice of German professor Friedrich Bhaer (with whom she falls in love) \u2013 becomes a published author. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>The 1994 film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0110367\/\">Little Women<\/a> stars Winona Ryder as Jo and Gabriel Byrne as Professor Bhaer, which casting helps a lot of readers get over the fact that Jo didn\u2019t marry Laurie. Rated PG. Also see the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3281548\/\">Little Women<\/a> (2019), directed by Greta Gerwig.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/miss-buncle-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/miss-buncle-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/miss-buncle.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In D.E. Stevenson\u2019s <em>Miss Buncle\u2019s Book<\/em> (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2012), originally published in 1934, dowdy Barbara Buncle has written a book about life in the little English village of Copperfield \u2013 which exactly replicates the people and events of her own village, Silverstream. Readers, seeing themselves, either become outraged or have sudden revelations or both. It\u2019s delightful and ends with Miss Buncle marrying her publisher. For teens and adults who miss Harriet the Spy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>HOW BOOKS ARE MADE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-a-book-is-made-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-a-book-is-made-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-a-book-is-made.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Aliki\u2019s 32-page picture book <em>How a Book Is Made<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1988) describes the many people who participate in the process of making a book &#8211; the author, who thinks of a story, then the editor, publisher, designer, proofreader, and more \u2013 until finally the finished book lands in the hands of a child. All the characters are very well-dressed cats. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-do-authors-do-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-do-authors-do-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/what-do-authors-do.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Eileen Christelow\u2019s <em>What Do Authors Do?<\/em> (Clarion Books, 1995), neighboring authors are simultaneously inspired to write books about their two pets \u2013 Rufus, a shaggy dog, and Max, a black-and-white cat. Through a combination of short text and fun cartoon-bubble illustrations, readers learn all about the process of creating a book, including revisions, research, illustrations, writer\u2019s block, and interactions with editors, designers, and printers. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-pictures-to-words-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-pictures-to-words-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/from-pictures-to-words.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Janet Stevens\u2019s <em>From Pictures to Words<\/em> (Holiday House, 1996), an author\/illustrator, with the help of three chatty animals (Cat, Koala Bear, and Rhino), shows how a picture book is made, covering characters, plot, and setting, sketches and storyboards, making a book dummy, and creating the final art. For ages 6-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/author-a-true-story-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/author-a-true-story-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/author-a-true-story.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By the author of Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester\u2019s <em>Author: A True Story<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2002) is the funny and delightful picture-book story of how she became an author, beginning at age three when she wrote \u201cuseful lists\u201d for her mother (they read the same right-side-up or upside-down), and in elementary school, when her handwriting was the prettiest in the class \u2013 but it was also \u201cperfectly backward.\u201d A tale of the perseverance it takes to become a published author. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-in-margins-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-in-margins-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/magic-in-margins.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In W. Nikola-Lisa\u2019s\u00a0 <em>Magic in the Margins<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2007), set in the Middle Ages, Simon, a young orphan, has been taken in by the local monastery and is being educated in book-making by Brother William, master scribe in the monastery\u2019s scriptorium.\u00a0 His first assignment: to \u201ccapture\u201d the monastery\u2019s mice. Simon does, with pen and ink. For ages 7-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/marguerite-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/marguerite-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/marguerite.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Bruce Robertson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Marguerite Makes a Book<\/em> (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999), set in 15<sup>th<\/sup>-century Paris, young Marguerite, the daughter of a book illustrator, must complete her father\u2019s work on an illuminated prayer book after her father breaks his glasses. A lovely look at the process of early book-making, with illustrations by Kathryn Hewitt. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>POP-UPS, ACCORDIONS, AND STORYBOOKS: CREATE A BOOK OF YOUR OWN<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/71kjauHVOML._AC_SL1000_-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/71kjauHVOML._AC_SL1000_-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/71kjauHVOML._AC_SL1000_-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/71kjauHVOML._AC_SL1000_.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lulu-Jr-Illustory-Making-Multicolor-dp-B0742JVGND\/dp\/B0742JVGND\/\">Illustory<\/a> kit, kids can write and illustrate their own 20-page books &#8211; and then have the result printed in the form of a real hardcover book. There&#8217;s even space for an &#8220;About the Author&#8221; blurb on the back cover. For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-860x1024.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-768x915.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-1290x1536.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-books-Diehn-1720x2048.jpg 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gwen Diehn\u2019s photo-illustrated <em>Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist &amp; Turn<\/em> (Lark Books, 2006) has step-by-step instructions for an array of truly beautiful and creative books, among them an accordion-fold book with pockets, a ring-bound journal, and a tetraflexagon book. Cool projects for ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/easy-popups-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/easy-popups-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/easy-popups.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Want to make a pop-up book? A good introduction is Joan Irvine\u2019s <em>Easy-to-Make Pop-Ups<\/em> (Dover Publications, 2005) which has clear illustrated instructions for many pop-up projects for beginners. Make a talking-mouth, a trapeze, a rocket, a fire-breathing dragon, a turning circle, and an entire zoo. A final section discusses using your new skills to make a pop-up book. Also by Irvine, see <em>Super Pop-Ups<\/em> (Dover Publications, 2008). For ages 9 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cool-stuff-reading-writing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cool-stuff-reading-writing.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cool-stuff-reading-writing-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Pam Scheunemann\u2019s photo-illustrated <em>Cool Stuff for Reading and Writing<\/em> (Checkerboard Library, 2011) is a collection of snazzy crafts for writers and booklovers, among them a Fancy-Nancy-style flower pen, felt book covers, a creative writer\u2019s notebook, bookmarks, and bookends. For ages 9-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-mini-books-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-mini-books-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-mini-books-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/making-mini-books.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Kathleen McCafferty\u2019s <em>Making Mini Books<\/em> (Lark Crafts, 2012) is an enchanting collection of small and very small books \u2013 among them a rainbow book that unfolds into the shape of a rainbow, matchbook books, and a book tiny enough to be worn as a necklace. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-763x1024.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-768x1031.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-1144x1536.jpg 1144w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith-1525x2048.jpg 1525w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/how-to-make-books-smith.jpg 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Esther K. Smith\u2019s <em>How to Make Books<\/em> (Potter Craft, 2007) \u2013 subtitled \u201c\u201dFold, Cut &amp; Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book\u201d \u2013 has instructions for making basic \u201cinstant\u201d books, accordion books, envelope books, pamphlets, journals, and sketchbooks, all with beautiful drawings and photographs of finished products.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Artist Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingbooks.com\/\">Makingbooks.com<\/a> has instructions for making eight simple book projects \u2013 among them a wish scroll, a stick-and-elastic book, an accordion book, and a step book, as well as an extensive resource list and helpful teaching tips.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Favecrafts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.favecrafts.com\/Handmade-Books\">Handmade Books<\/a> has book-binding tutorials and instructions for making a variety of books, among them a keyhole book, a cupcake recipe book, a journal, a memory book, and a soft book (great for toddlers).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/download-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The Instructables <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Envelope-Book\/\">Envelope Book<\/a> has illustrated step-by-step instructions for a book made from 12 vintage envelopes. Assemble and fill with cool stuff.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6a00e550e99ce588340115713ac4d2970c-500wi-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6a00e550e99ce588340115713ac4d2970c-500wi-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6a00e550e99ce588340115713ac4d2970c-500wi.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From Bird and Little Bird, <a href=\"http:\/\/birdandlittlebird.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/bookmaking-with-children-accordian-books.html\">Bookmaking with Children: Accordion Books<\/a> has step-by-step photo-illustrated instructions for making a particularly attractive and colorful accordion book.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Artists Helping Children, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshelpingchildren.org\/bookmaking-crafts-make-books.html\">Book Making Crafts for Kids<\/a> has instructions for beginner book-binding\u00a0 projects, scrapbooks, journals, and themed books, among them a heart-shaped book and an alphabet book.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>GETTING PUBLISHED!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/teens-guide-getting-published-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/teens-guide-getting-published-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/teens-guide-getting-published.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Jessica Dunn and Danielle Dunn, <em>A Teen\u2019s Guide to Getting Published<\/em> (Prufrock Press, 2006) covers the writing craft, freelance publishing (including how to prepare submissions and what you should know about rights and copyright), feedback, and market venues. Appendices list writing camps and workshops, and book publishing opportunities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-mag-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-mag-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-mag-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-mag-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/stone-soup-mag.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonesoup.com\/\">Stone Soup<\/a> publishes stories, poems, and art by kids ages 8-13. Six issues are published each year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/skipping-stones-mag.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/\">Skipping Stones<\/a> is a multicultural literary magazine that accepts stories, essays, and poems from kids of all ages and languages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/new-moon-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/new-moon-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/new-moon.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/newmoongirls.com\/\">New Moon Girls<\/a> \u2013 \u201cby girls, for girls\u201d \u2013 is written largely by girls ages 8-14. See the website for submission guidelines. Available either on paper or as an e-magazine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/teen-ink-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/teen-ink-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/teen-ink.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenink.com\/\">Teen Ink<\/a> publishes articles, stories, poetry, art, and photos by teens, and sponsors numerous contests.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apprenticewriter.com\/\">The Apprentice Writer<\/a> publishes fiction, memoir, personal essays, poetry, and photography by high-school-level students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/concord-review-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/concord-review-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/concord-review.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>For the young non-fiction writer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcr.org\/\">The Concord Review<\/a><\/em>, a quarterly history journal, is a highly respected publisher of academic essays by secondary students. Visit the website for instructions, sample essays, and the table of contents of the current issue. An annual subscription costs $40.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nanowrimo-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nanowrimo-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nanowrimo.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">Nanowrimo<\/a> stands for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Na<\/span>tional <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No<\/span>vel <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wri<\/span>ting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mo<\/span>nth, a literary marathon event during which all participating writers share the goal of completing an entire 50,000-word novel in the month of November. A subset of the program \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/ywp.nanowrimo.org\/\">Nanowrimo Young Writers Program<\/a> \u2013 is designed for K-12 groups or for writers ages 12 and under writing solo; in this case, total word count is left to teachers, parents, the group, or the individual kid. The benefits of Nanowrimo are said to be legion: among these are increased verbal fluency, self-confidence, and creativity, and an enhanced understanding of time management, since churning out a novel in a mere thirty days necessarily requires focus, scheduling, and dedication.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>November is not just for fiction writers. WNFIN \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/writenonfictioninnovember.com\/2012\/10\/23\/a-reason-to-challenge-yourself-to-write-a-book-during-november\/\">Write Nonfiction in November<\/a> \u2013 is an annual NaNoWriMo-type challenge to write a nonfiction book in 30 days.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machine-of-death-cover-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machine-of-death-cover-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/machine-of-death-cover.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/machineofdeath.net\/\">Machine of Death<\/a> (MOD) began as a writing contest that led to two books of collected short stories. The premise: a machine has been invented that can tell you, by taking a sample of your blood, just how you\u2019re going to die. The machine gives you no specifics \u2013 simply generates a card printed with a single word or phrase (DROWNED, CHOKED ON A TACO, BURIED ALIVE). Now\u2026write a story. Try it!<\/p>\n<p>Now available as a game.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dark-and-stormy-night-bulwer-lytton-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dark-and-stormy-night-bulwer-lytton-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dark-and-stormy-night-bulwer-lytton.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a>, participants compete to write the first sentence of the world\u2019s most dreadful novel. The contest is an annual event, with thousands of applicants, enthusiastic media coverage, and numerous subcategories, among them Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children\u2019s Literature, and Purple Prose. The rules for entry are described as \u201cchildishly simple\u201d: applicants simply submit their awful sentence in an e-mail or via snail mail on an index card. Or your multiple entries: there are no limitations; contestants can submit as many awful sentences as they want. The annual deadline is April 15, but entries are accepted year-round. The BLFC website is targeted at teenagers and adults but the contest itself is potentially fun for a wide range of ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Also see the BLFC website for the truly dreadful sentence by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton that inspired the whole thing. It\u2019s from the long-forgotten novel <em>Paul Clifford<\/em>, which begins \u201cIt was a dark and stormy night\u2026\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribblitt.com\/\">Scriblitt<\/a> provides online tools with which kids can create and print their own illustrated story booklets, comics, and stationery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyjumper.com\/\">Storyjumper<\/a> is an online site at which kids can create and edit books, using a variety of provided props and settings. Finished books can be shared online or printed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>POEMS ABOUT WRITING<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-798x1024.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-768x985.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-1197x1536.jpg 1197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1-1597x2048.jpg 1597w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wonderful-words-1.jpg 1949w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins, <em>Wonderful Words<\/em> (Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004) is an illustrated collection of 15 poems about the joy of language in reading, writing, speaking, and listening by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, David McCord, Eve Merriam, and Karla Kuskin.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Charles Bukowski\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/so-you-want-be-writer\">So You Want to Be a Writer<\/a>\u00a0explains when not to write: \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t come bursting out of you\/in spite of everything\/don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Richard Wilbur\u2019s poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/writer\">The Writer<\/a>\u00a0begins with his young daughter writing a story.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All about writing &#8211; including advice from a mouse, dire warnings from a chicken, and a Machine of Death. 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