Children’s Writer’s Word Book (Children's Writer's Word Book) [Paperback]

Alijandra Mogilner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0898799511 | ISBN-13: 978-0898799514 | Publication Date: July 15, 1999 | Edition: ZZZ

This title's unique design ensures that writers speak to their audience with a vocabulary and style they both understand and find appealing. A fast-reference guide meant to be used along with a dictionary, thesaurus and yellow pad of paper, it will help fulfill the dream of becoming a published children's writer. Highlights include: lists of specific words introduced at each of seven reading levels (K-6); a thesaurus of synonyms, annotated with reading levels; advice and tips particular to word usage for each reading level; guideline for sentence length and themes; idea generators for other stories.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Children's Writer's Word Book will help you keep your vocabulary on target". -- Writer's Library

About the Author

Alijandra Mogilner has been writing-and publishing-stories for children since 1982. She teaches at the University of California in San Diego.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books; ZZZ edition (July 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898799511
• ISBN-13: 978-0898799514
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on writing for children I have found., October 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Children’s Writer’s Word Book (Children's Writer's Word Book) (Paperback)

More than just a list of words and grades, this book actually tells you what publishers are looking for and why. It also gives examples of writing, explains how to introduce new words and foreign words and diffrent types of childrens writing.

I have used this book a great deal with good results.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Graded Word Lists + Age Profile = GREAT BOOK, June 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Children’s Writer’s Word Book (Children's Writer's Word Book) (Paperback)

The Children's Writer's Word Book is one of those littlereferences you wouldn't necessarily think you needed in yourcollection. However, once I opened this book, I knew I needed to place it in a very prized position on my reference shelf.

Not only are the graded word lists extremely helpful, but the short profile of each age group combined with the description of what publishers are looking for at each reading level makes for a powerful advantage when writing for children.

This book is a must-have if you are writing for children.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful Thesaurus, November 19, 2005

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This review is from: Children’s Writer’s Word Book (Children's Writer's Word Book) (Paperback)

The beginning of this book is broken down into chapters from Kindergarten to Sixth grade and gives sample words to use at each level.

But the bulk of this book (and most useful part) is a Thesaurus of sorts. It gives word choices for each grade level for each word in the Thesaurus.

Overall a good book to get a general idea of the words to use with each grade level.