Category: Reading and Literacy
Stand Up For Middle Grade Books – or Tweens?
Theres a great post on the ReadingZone.com called: Why children’s books needs an ‘MGLC’ First, what is MGLC? The MG stands for Middle Grade and LC stands for Literary Convention. This comes about because there has been a successful YALC this weekend – YA stands for Young Adult. The glamour, effort – and prizes – in children’s…
Do children need to learn to read anymore?
I obviously think learning to read is a great idea. I earn my living writing children’s books. Children’s hard labour keeps me busy with honest toil. I wouldn’t want children to grow up without recourse to the wonderful worlds of fantasy that I was able to explore in my youth. Narnia was not just a collection…
How to draw Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Tomorrow is Shakespeare’s birthday and to celebrate I thought I would do an illustration of Hamlet talking to York’s skull. This is going to be a bit of a departure from my usual videos. I think I’m now going to concentrate more on illustration on the ShooRaynerDrawing channel and use DrawStuffRealEasy for for the more…