An insider’s look at kid lit
Arthur Levine, from Scholastic, talks about misconceptions of new children’s book authors.
“”There is a great misapprehension that it’s easy to write a children’s book,” Arthur Levine said. “It’s widely held in all forms of literature — that it’s somehow easy to do — but it often seems that people read to their kids and make the leap that they could write something that connects in the same way as the book they’re reading.”
A few can, but writing for children is not any easier than writing for adults. It takes talent and persistence and an ability to connect to children without coddling or patronizing them. It’s not as easy as it might look, even with pictures on the page and fewer words.”