How to create an interesting children’s book

Children’s books are one of the most exciting to write as you can incorporate so many different elements to them from good values to colorful images and a fictional world. Books for children are designed for the imagination so can be as wild as you want to make it. If you’re writing a children’s book, here are a few tips on creating one.

Get into the mindset - When it comes to writing a book for kids, it’s completely different than writing for adults as they think differently, and you’ll have to put yourself in the shoes of who you’re writing for. Children’s books cover many years of our little ones, and these are the years they develop cognitively the most, so each stage will require a different set up in the books. You’ll need to adapt it and make it educational and fun.

Learn about your target audience - Like for any genre of book, you need to know who you’re writing for and when it comes to kids, that’s the same process. Buyers are generally females between the age of 30-44 so you need to make it appealing for them that they’ll buy it for their kids.

Include important elements - Like a book, you still want to fill it with every exciting element out there from interesting characters to action and plot twists. Just because it’s for children, it doesn't mean it’s less exciting. In fact, it’s probably more exciting as you can pack it with every descriptive word under the sun and loads of colorful imagery.

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Authors Who Wrote Books That Both Kids and Adults Love

A love of reading is something many of us have in common, and some of the finest books in the world are those that can be enjoyed by both adults and children alike. Here are two of the world’s best loved authors who wrote books that are suitable for anyone aged nine to ninety.

Roald Dahl

Dahl’s tales contain the perfect balance of humor, pathos and darkness to make them appealing to readers of all ages. His iconic works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, the BFG and James and the Giant Peach. Dahl’s exceptional ability to understand how children think is reflected in his attitude to them as readers: he’s never patronizing, and he doesn’t leave out the gory details. In short, he treats his young readers as people, rather than children, and this means that adults can enjoy the books just as much as kids.

J.K. Rowling

Of course, J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, the biggest selling children’s book of all time - and also one of the best-selling books ever. The publisher even created two different covers for each installment of the seven-part series, to appeal to the two demographics. The story of a young boy finding out he is a wizard at 11, and his adventures at the richly imagined world of Hogwarts School has captivated children and grown-ups for over 20 years, and it’s likely it will still be enjoyed in another 200.

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