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Write Your Own Story Book

By Louie Stowell
Series: Write Your Own
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Write Your Own Story Book by Louie Stowell invites children into the world of creative writing. It provides engaging prompts, fun illustrations, and helpful tips to inspire young writers to craft their own stories. Perfect for budding authors, this book offers a blend of guidance and imaginative freedom, encouraging creativity and self-expression.
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You might enjoy this book if you love inspiring creativity in young minds. It provides imaginative storytelling prompts and engaging activities designed to unlock children's writing potential. It's a perfect choice for young aspiring authors looking to develop their narrative skills while having fun.

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Suitable for aspiring young writers, this activity book is full of hints, tips and handy tasks for writing stories. It includes writing tips, techniques and methods to make every story a masterpiece, with helpful activities on coming up with ideas, writing from different points of view, and creating characters, settings and story lines.

A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.

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A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories.

Write Your Own Story Book includes a variety of engaging writing activities such as creating a fictional school journal, crafting a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture. This book is packed with writing tips and features a 'storywriting toolkit' to inspire budding authors.

It has a concealed spiral binding, allowing the book to open flat without interfering with the writing process. This book is perfectly complemented by Usborne's Write Your Own Story Word Book, an inspiring write-in resource that helps children find the right words for crafting engaging stories.

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    A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their own stories. Write Your Own Story Book includes a variety of engaging writing activities such as creating a fictional school journal, crafting a comic strip, and forming a story around a picture. This book is packed with writing tips and features a 'storywriting toolkit' to inspire budding authors. It...
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Write Your Own Story Book by Louie Stowell is widely praised as an inspirational tool for budding young writers. Reviewers highlight its ability to spark creativity, providing a wealth of ideas and guidance on storytelling elements like characters, settings, and narrative structure. The book is described as an essential resource for young storytellers, offering practical techniques and encouraging hands-on engagement to boost creativity and storytelling skills.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409523352

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Spiral bound

Date Published: 01 June 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Katie Lovell

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Louie Stowell has written dozens of non-fiction and story titles for Usborne, on everything from space science and coding to the human body and, now, politics. She is now Editorial Director at Ladybird, Penguin Random House and is currently working on four children's fantasy novels.

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