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Write Your Own Story Word Book

Series: Write Your Own
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Write Your Own Story Word Book by Jane Bingham is an engaging children’s book designed to inspire imagination and creativity. It provides young readers with a collection of words, ideas, and prompts to help them craft their own unique stories. It's a fun and educational tool that encourages language skills and storytelling without giving away any specific plot details.
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Format: Spiral bound
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This book may appeal to you if you have a budding young writer eager to build vocabulary and explore the art of storytelling. Filled with engaging prompts and activities, it helps children unleash their creativity and craft their own exciting tales.

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An enticing write-in book packed with words and phrases to inspire young writers
Provides helpful advice on choosing the best words for creating characters, setting scenes and shaping stories, as well as special vocabulary for different story themes. Young authors can create their own stories and build up a word bank of favourite words and phrases, so that they need never use 'nice' again...The perfect companion to Usborne's best-selling Write Your Own Story Book.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474986816

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Spiral bound

Date Published: 11 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Kyle Beckett
  • Illustrated by Amy Marie Stadelmann

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 490g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Jane studied English at Exeter and Art History at York. She has worked on various Usborne dictionaries, encyclopaedias and learning books, and her edition of the Usborne Illustrated Dictionary was awarded a prize for a significant contribution to children's literacy. She has two sons and three stepsons who are now scattered across the globe. She gets a huge thrill from seeing her books on sale when she travels to the USA and Australia.

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