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Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer's notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. Fletcher, author of the ALA Notable children's book Fig Pudding, fleshes the book out with numerous examples from his own notebooks and from those of other writers, child and adult.
Book Description
Writers are like other people, except for at least one important difference. Other people have daily thoughts and feelings, notice this sky or that smell, but they don't do much about it.
Not writers. Writers react. And writers need a place to record those reactions. That's what a writer's notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don't want to forget. . . .
Card catalog description
Discusses the various kinds of things to keep in a writer's notebook--seed ideas, mind pictures, lists, memories, samples of other writers' work--and why.
About the Author
Ralph Fletcher has always had a special passion for children's literature. Her is the author of picture books, nonfiction, and novels for young readers. Poetry Matters is the fourth book in Mr. Fletcher's series of instructional writing books, which includes A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You, Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words and How Writers Work. Mr. Fletcher lives with his family in New Hampshire.
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