by Pat Marcello | Dec 15, 2010 | Writing
What? That’s often a question young adult writers start out with. So, how do you get to know them? Simple. It’s almost the same way that you get to know the little ones — go to places they hand out. A fast food restaurant is good, as is the mall. Go...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 14, 2010 | Writing
Image via Wikipedia With the young adult genre in children’s literature, we’re getting to the “almost adult” crowd. In fact, some of these kids, who are generally thought to be between 12 and 15, are already reading adult books. I know I was...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 13, 2010 | Writing
When thinking of middle-grade readers, we’ve established that they’re not in middle grades. These are kids in 2nd to 7th grade, and the group requires diverse information. The younger ones like silly funny, while the older ones like a little more...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 12, 2010 | Writing
I love middle-grade readers. Though everyone’s basic personality is formed by five years old, they say, reading habits are formed at this stage, I think. I really have no psychological data to support that assumption, but it’s surely plausible. Cover of...
by Pat Marcello | Dec 11, 2010 | Writing
If you’re the parent of at 20-something kid, you probably do remember Goosebumps. Both the book series and the television series were wildly popular with the middle-grade crowd in the 90’s, and my daughter loved both. I can’t tell you how many of...
