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Teacher and author Rebecca Olien makes writing accessible and enjoyable for young writers by offering a variety of writing prompts to spur creativity and help writers develop valuable written communication skills. To celebrate writing as a creative art form, writing is interwoven with other forms of artistic expression, including theater, puppetry, and photography, as well as music, drawing, and crafts. Encouraging young writers to value their imaginations as they use words to give form to their ideas, the book offers readers the language tools needed in their writing and introduces them to a variety of writing experiences including mystery, adventure, folk tales, legends, journalism, drama, autobiography, and fantasy. Some fun writing exercises children will love to try include: making and following a treasure map as they plot their adventure, creating a mask of an early civilization that they have invented and then writing a story that describes the people and their culture, and crafting a puppet and then writing script for the puppet show. (Softcover) 128 color pages