• Essential reading for practising or intending children’s writers
• Wisdom and insights based on decades of writing at the highest level

Here in warmly written prose, the author distils her four decades at the top of the children’s writing pyramid for the benefit of anyone engaging in writing for young people. Topics covered in the short chapters - each illustrated by Fraser Williamson - are developing a plot, dialogue, writers’ discipline, humour, early reading, novels, picture books, plays, poetry, presentation and editing.

THE AUTHOR:

Joy Cowley (pictured) is an internationally recognised author of fiction for children (as well as adults). She has published more than 600 early readers along with numerous novels and short stories. In 2005 she was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to children’s literature. She lives in Wellington.