If You Want to Write a Story - by Jeff Mack (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Crafting a great story can be as fun as reading one with this action-packed introduction to fiction writing as your child's guide!

Nothing is quite as exciting and frustrating as chasing a story idea out of your head and onto the page. Award-winning author and illustrator Jeff Mack should know-- he's been telling stories since the second grade. With How to Write a Story, he brings the writing process to life for the next generation of yarn spinners.

"Ideas are hiding anywhere," our narrator notes as we open on a pensive mouse at his writing desk. This proves true a moment later, when a stuffed bunny leaps from a shelf and out of the house, straight to a cardboard box spaceship. "Writing a story is like traveling through space," we continue as mouse and bunny do just that: "It may take you a long time. You may not always know where you're going." Once landed on an alien planet, the adventure continues to the bottom of the sea, the stomach of a big fish, and the lair of a killer robot. Each thrilling beat illustrates a tool in the fiction writer's kit.

Whether used in the classroom or gifted to the talented youngster in your life, How to Write a Story is timeless, multifaceted, and empowering.

Review Quotes

Mack offers an immensely entertaining tale while explaining various processes in clear, practical steps.. . . The ideal vehicle for inspiring children's own flights of fancy.
--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Jeff Mack is the creator of more than forty picture books, chapter books, and early readers, including Hush Little Polar Bear, Duck in the Fridge, Just a Story, and Scaredy Cats. He has also illustrated award-winning books such as Eve Bunting's Hurry! Hurry! and James Howe's Bunnicula and Friends. Originally from Syracuse, NY, he started writing and illustrating his own comic books in the second grade, and he's been doing it ever since. He lives in Western Massachusetts; visit him at www.jeffmack.com.