Amy Sparkes
If you’d like to be a successful author, look at published books by successful children’s authors and work out WHY their stories work and HOW you can use that information to develop your own writing.
Last month we looked at picture books, and this month we’re looking at writing for older children. We’ll be studying the phenomenally successful Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling (Bloomsbury). If you haven’t already, read the book before this article as there will be spoilers galore!