| Are you in a place where you want to learn to | | | | character being themselves. Your characters need |
| write children's books? If so, there might be a | | | | to have their own motivations, their own interests |
| time where you find yourself worrying about the | | | | and their own way of doing things, and you will |
| moral and the theme of the story. The more you | | | | find that there are natural actions for them to |
| work on writing children's books and the more | | | | take. For instance, learn to write in a way that |
| you sort out the stories in your head, you will find | | | | shows your characters progressing in a certain |
| that you are in a place where you are going to | | | | way, there are going to be some actions that |
| start wanting to sort out the morals and your | | | | they would never commit. If your characters has |
| themes. These are important parts to any | | | | been greedy from the very beginning and you |
| rewarding stories and especially if you are writing | | | | end the story with them suddenly being generous, |
| children's books, you might feel as though you | | | | you are going to find that they are going to have |
| should be compelled to put in a moral for people | | | | some issues with the way that your story goes! |
| to follow. On the other hand, if you want to learn | | | | Remember that when you are dealing with how |
| to write, and particularly if you want to learn to | | | | to write children's books, you don't have much |
| write children's books, there are a few things that | | | | space. The old saying that less is more might as |
| you need to keep in mind. | | | | well have been written for children's books, and |
| For instance, one thing that you are going to need | | | | the more time that you spend looking into writing |
| to learn is that with children's books, as with | | | | well, the better off you are going to be. |
| every other type of story, your morals, and your | | | | Remember that every word that you use has to |
| themes need to serve the story; the story | | | | pull its weight and that if you spend a lot of time |
| cannot serve the moral or the theme. If you find | | | | moralizing or telling the readers what they should |
| that you are writing a story about morals or | | | | be feeling, you are losing out on what you could |
| themes, there is a good chance that your | | | | be telling them or describing to them. The |
| characters are fairly flat or that they are in some | | | | guidelines for your target age group/genre will put |
| other sort of trouble! Remember that children | | | | limits on word length, so keep this in mind too. |
| tend to read stories so that they can be | | | | If you are interested in thinking about morals and |
| entertained, not so that they can learn a lesson. | | | | themes in your work, remember that they should |
| In many ways, they read stories to read about | | | | arise organically throughout the story. If you want |
| things that they would never do, or could never | | | | to learn to write children's books, you will find that |
| do. | | | | deciding how to handle important elements like |
| One example of a moral or a theme intruding | | | | this one is an important thing to cover. |
| upon a story is if it gets in the way of your | | | | |