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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Word of mouth still the strongest promoter of books

There’s nothing like discovering a good book. Of course, you don’t really know that it is good until you read it, but when you do, you want to tell everybody about and discuss it with other people.

How and why we decide to read the books we do is a fascinating subject. Publishing companies will launch huge publicity drives to promote new books and authors, however a recent survey by Penguin Random House suggests word of mouth is by the far the most effective way of discovering new books. The publishing company survey 40,000 readers to find out a bit more about their reading habits and there were some very interesting findings.

When asked what the most influential factors was when deciding what to read next, 81% said that recommendations from friends and family influence their decision.

Unsurprisingly, a much greater percentage of reader under 40 found out about new books through social media and other online review sites, such as Goodreads, than readers over 40. More than half of the under 40s surveyed said they found out about books from social media and review sites compared with just over 20 % of those aged over 70.

That trend is completely reversed when it comes to books chosen based on newspaper or magazine reviews or advertisements in printed media with 70% of over 70s saying they relied on printed reviews.

Interestingly, the survey found that women were more likely than men to trust recommendations from friends and families (79% to 66%) while men put more stock in printed reviews than women (54% to 49%)

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