The Young Author's Do-It-Yourself Book: How to Write, Illustrate, and Produce Your Own Book

This book appealed both to my inner Judy Blume and the English teacher. The authors take the reader through the entire process of publishing a book- from figuring out whether you want to writing fiction or non-fiction to illustrating and promoting. What I like best is that this text falls under the "tricks you into learning" category: explaining characters, setting, cinflict, and esolution. The student is studing the elements of plot without his/her knowledge. Another bonus is the section of editing, a step students frequently ignore. One drawback is that only two pages are devoted to editing-- I owuld like to have seen it emphasized more.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to write and illustrate a fiction or nonfiction story, and how to assemble it as a hand-bound book for children to follow along for themselves.