Describes the Children's Writers Workshop, a summer program of the Troy (New York) Public Library, which introduces children to the art of bookmaking by allowing them to write, illustrate, lay out, and bind their own books. Registration policy, staff, materials, costs, funding, and activities for the five sessions are among the topics covered. (6…

Elaborates on an author's use of the journey motif and traces and examines its use in her novels. (NKA)

Details the author's reasons for breaking into the field of children's literature after a career of writing adult novels, poetry, and film scripts. Identifies the qualities she considers essential for children's books and the standards that she believes should be met when writing for children. (NKA)

Reveals the work habits of a graphic designer/illustrator/author: where she finds her ideas for books, how she chooses colors, and what she feels is most important in her work. (NKA)

Defines the form, subject, structure, language, and feeling of haiku, a Japanes verse form in which a short poem captures the essence of natural events. Provides guidelines for using haiku in nature education. (LFL)

Describes clientele who could benefit from software being developed at University of Iowa for writing effective prose; what these authoring tools do and how they work; and design standards likely to produce a successful product. The software's design scheme, general design principles and objectives, and educational potential are discussed. (MBR)

Comments on the difficulty of writing novels for adolescents and the writer's efforts to encourage adolescents not to conform, to be responsible for themselves and their friends, and to communicate with adults. (SRT)

Describes a model for a poetry writing project that aspires to transform students into sounder thinking, more sensitive human beings. The project, which was used in a grade eight class, includes writing and editing original poetry, class discussion, and creating books of student poetry. (KH)

Writing skills can be reinforced when students work together to create a classroom novel. Examples of how a language arts class developed a character by brainstorming, then wrote and revised their story to be shared with others, are given. (DF)

Describes a pilot program that used computers to help teach creative writing to children in New York's South Bronx. (CRH)

Howe describes the creative writer's responsibility as writing from his or her own inner person or truest self to the inner person of the reader. (CRH)

Describes Lenski's work as a reflection of artistic and social conventions of another era, then examines why they are still popular. (CRH)

The study assessed the effects of using a creative writing scale as an evaluative and instructional tool with 61 gifted primary grade students. Ss in the creative writing program showed significant differences over control Ss on the "Test of Written Lanugage, the "Sager Writing Scale," and the "Writing Attitude Survey."…

Reviews research indicating that children's writing moves in an age-related sequence from the literal and factual to the metaphorical and affective and shows a growth in awareness of the psychological characteristics of the self and others. Presents an analysis of children's stories that provides guidelines for teachers and researchers to use in…

Deals with ways to inspire students to write. Offers writing exercises in the form of a workshop emphasizing all phases of writing and encouraging individual initiative. (FL)