Do you have reluctant writers in your class or home?
Or writers desperate to write but don’t know where to start?
Creative storytellers who struggle to get ideas on to paper?
Writers that need to develop their stamina by sharing brilliant ideas in bite sized chunks?
If any of the above sound familiar to you
I have JUST the book!

Telling Tales Journeys In Creative Writing
Is a writing adventure
A fun, engaging journey of imagination and playful writing
A quest led by Ms. Adjective the Adventurer
A challenge for little writers to
“See how far your imagination will take you!”
The book is packed with vocabulary
Along with tips, tricks and trivia to improve grammar and punctuation
This book grabs children and takes them to
18 inventive landscapes buzzing with storytelling potential

My twins, age 12, need no encouragement to write
They are both avid readers and wonderful writers
Esther struggles with spelling and grammar because of her dyslexia
But it has never stopped her putting pen to paper
They enjoyed some of the short writing tasks in this book
And used the prompts to inspire some truly magical writing
They were able to twist and bend and stretch the prompts
To fit their Tolkien and Eragon inspired ideas

Bea, age 8, was very happy to follow the tasks more as they were intended to be used
This vibrant book can be used with children with a wide range of abilities
Our house is a great testing ground as the children are all so different
In their ability, interests, stamina and work ethics!

The idea of this book is to get children thinking
Get them talking and ultimately get them writing

Each landscape in The World Of Creative Writing
Comes with a scenario and a task
For example, in Ocean Corner
Fluffy The Dog is about to get stung by a venomous jellyfish tendril
To help him swim to safety children are asked to write
A description of what the giant jellyfish looks like and how big it is

In Forest Land children are asked to create a new type of tree
We combined this task with writing a poem

Esther and William created a tree
They created a creature who lived in or near the tree
They wrote a poem about their tree
The worlds they created sparked from this task were amazing!

We loved Spectral Spookyville
Where the task was to list as many different types of monsters
As we could in 60 seconds

We also had great fun writing lots of different poems
From limericks to haiku to acrostics
We love word play and experimenting with writing
So this book really did appeal to us as a family

We enjoyed the challenge of filling in the blanks
On the Island of Disappearing Words
We did this in a serious manner
And then in a rather nonsensical fashion
Which brought us all so much joy

I think this book
With its quirky vibrant artwork
And range of inventive writing challenges
Shows children that writing can be the most enormous fun

Telling Tales Journeys In Creative Writing
Takes the pressure off producing ‘good’ writing
It gets kids writing from their hearts
Using their imaginations and their humour
We have LOVED exploring this world together

Please do zoom in and read the twins writing
I am so proud of the authors they are becoming
Books like this are great for a bit of fun
Great for practising skills
But the heart and soul of children’s writing
Their ideas and vocabulary
Come mostly from the books that they read

If you want your children to be writers
And they all can be, even the dyslexic ones
Esther and Bea are both testament to that
Let them read ALL the books
Read with them
Read to them
Listen with them
Listen to them
Read read read and then they will
Write write write x

This review is part of the Book Blog Tour for Non Fiction November 2022

Organised by The Federation of Children’s Book Groups (FCBG)

Please do take the time to visit the other blogs on the tour

To discover lots more brilliant and beautiful non fiction books for children