Newly confident readers love animal stories just as much as younger children, says author Amy Sparkes, concluding her look at creating animal magic in your stories
Animals have a special place in our hearts and our stories. Animal books in young fiction (age 5-9) or middlegrade fiction (age 9-12) tend to fall into one of two categories: stories focusing on the relationship between animals and humans; or stories which view the world from the animals’ perspective.