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Scooping The Kid's Market: Writing For Children In The Nineties, Judith Collins
Scooping The Kid's Market: Writing For Children In The Nineties, Judith Collins
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Many people think writing for kids is simple. After all, what parent, grandparent or teacher has not picked up A Little ABC Book book and thought, "I can do better than this ! "
However, even though writing for kids in the 1990s is possible, exciting and fulfilling it 's not as easy as it looks. In addition to knowing how to write well , writing for kids today takes more commitment, ambition, creativity, sensitivity and expertise because kids are much more sophisticated than they were ten or twenty years ago.
And, because global information systems and mass media have …