Kids Want to Write? Read Spilling Ink Book.

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Spilling Ink, a Young Writer’s Handbook isn’t what I expected, it’s MORE!  I loved it – and think it’s appropriate for us older young writers, too!

Writing book for kids

*The only writing books for young writers I like are, well, very few — Ralph Fletcher and Victoria Hanley’s books come to mind in addition to my new favorite, Spilling Ink.

Here’s why I recommend this book for your kids (and you):

  • Encourages writing anything and breaking the rules.
  • Broken into manageable sections, making it easy to read.
  • Helpful ideas.
  • Memorable – love the stories of writing shared by both authors.
  • Relatable – all writers stumble and grow, Anne and Ellen show how they’ve failed and succeeded.
  • Inspiring!
  • “I Dare You” ideas.

If you haven’t bought this book for your kids or yourself, it’s time. (Okay, if your child is only two, maybe wait a few years.  I’m just saying . . .)

Spilling Ink is written by two experienced children’s book authors — Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter who, besides having lots of books, host a great blog on writing. Today, Anne Mazer shares on Imagination Soup ideas for writing dates with your kids.

GIVEAWAY! Do you want to win a copy of Spilling Ink? Comment below and tell why you’d like to win.  Contest ends July 31, 2010. (U.S. and Canada only.)

UPDATE: Congratulations to Marlis!  I wish I could give this book to all of you so as usual, I used random.org to select the winner.

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  1. My daughter (10) loves to read and write. She is forever into some writing project and this book would help guide and encourage her. This is her blog http://annaxandria-storygirl.blogspot.com/

    She writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her current project (not published) is a piece of historical fiction based on the Revolution. Ambitious, I know.

    Thanks for the giveaway offer.

  2. We’re unschoolers… we’re all about breaking the rules! I want to win because this book sounds like it fits in perfectly with how we learn.

  3. My son’s blog is linked this comment. He’s a recent budding non-fiction writer (after 7 years of my pulling out my hair trying to get him to write one sentence of fiction or non-fiction!) and would LOVE it, especially since one of his best friends (Kitten’s Purring) has reviewed it!

    He’d be writing himself, but he’s on a HUGE adventure trip with his Boy Scout troop!