Why kids ‘why?’
If you write for younger children, a new study by the University of Texas and Vanderbilt University, published by Frontiers in Psychology, has some pointers to make your work more appealing. Researchers Margaret Shavlik, Jessie Raye Bauer and Amy E Booth note: ‘From a young age, children have a strong interest in discovering the causal structure of the world around them.’ Or, in other words, as parents are often all too aware, children want to know ‘why?’