creative writing

Gives suggestions for combining creative writing, calligraphy, and art work to produce unique and personal gifts such as stationery, postcards, posters, greetings cards, books of several types, and holiday projects.

Provides prompts, exercises, and words of encouragements from famous authors aimed at helping writers develop their creative writing skills.

Sixteen-year-olds Violet and Katie, best friends since seventh grade despite differences in their family backgrounds and abilities, are pulled apart during their junior year at Massachusetts' exclusive Westfield School.

Offers children interested in writing and reading an overview of the careers they may enjoy in the future, discussing what it takes to become an author, book producer, editor, journalist, librarian, or literary agent.

Several American poets offer advice to young people who are interested in writing poetry. There are also several examples of each poet's work.

Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.

In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.

Presents lessons designed to show teachers how to use picture books to teach writing skills to students in grades four through eight, and includes recommended reading lists.