We had 45 people come to our Roald Dahl 100 Celebration on Tuesday, September 13th, the centennial of Roald Dahl’s birth! Mr. Nick told us all about Dahl’s life and how his life sometimes inspired his fiction and his writing style. We did a quiz, a word search, and a […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop with Tracy Holczer
Published on :On Friday, August 26, we had Tracy Holczer here at the Pasadena Public Library children’s story room to teach creative writing to kids aged 8-12. Tracy Holczer wrote the gorgeous middle grade novel The Secret Hum of a Daisy. We discussed lots of things: reading, how to write a good […]
Creative Writing for Beginning Readers: The Wonderful World of Poems with Cassidy Kao
Published on :On August 9, 2016, a young self-published poet named Cassidy Kao, age 10, taught our Creative Writing for Beginning Readers class for kids between 5 and 8 years old. She explained four different kinds of poems to us and then the kids worked individually with their parents to write their […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop: The Hero’s Journey
Published on :Last Friday July 15th our Kids’ Writing Workshop for ages 8-12 learned about the form and structure of the Hero’s Journey. We watched a video about how myths use a more-or-less twelve-step process that gets the audience identifying with and rooting for a hero. The video demonstrates how this journey […]
Bethany Barton Teaches Creative Writing
Published on :On Saturday, July 9, 2016, author-illustrator Bethany Barton taught a creative writing class for kids ages 5-8 at Pasadena Public Library. Her humor and fun infused the class and put the kids in a playful, creative zone. She read us one of her books and even brought some way-cool props, […]
Creative Writing for Beginning Readers, with Ashlyn Anstee!
Published on :Last week, author-illustrator Ashlyn Anstee came to Pasadena Public Library to teach a workshop on creative writing for kids between the ages of 5 and 8. The workshop was super fun, punctuated by her amazing sense of humor and her creative ideas for engaging the kids! Thanks a million for […]
Creative Writing for Beginning Readers: Stories inspired by Pamela Zagarenski
Published on :Yesterday in our Creative Writing for Beginning Readers workshop we wrote stories based on the beautiful illustrations in Pamela Zagarenski’s book The Whisper. This picture book is about a magic book whose words have all flown away and it is up to one intelligent little girl to create new words […]
Kids’ Writing Workshop with Author Rachel Searles
Published on :Rachel Searles, author of MG science fiction novels The Lost Planet and its new sequel Stolen Moon, got the kids thinking creatively and having fun making the weirdest, scariest, funniest, most colorful alien character they could! First she shared her writing process with us. I love it when a successful […]
“My Big Fish Story” — a story by David Lowe III
Published on :One City One Story 2016 Writing Contest: “A Vivid Memory” Honorable mention Category 1: Grades 3-5 “My Big Fish Story” by David Lowe III Grade 3 Home school This memory is about the first time I went rainbow trout fishing with my family at Shaver Lake, and we […]
“Lively Minded” — a story by Zachary J. Kriebs
Published on :One City One Story 2016 Writing Contest: “A Vivid Memory” Honorable mention Category 1: Grades 3-5 “Lively Minded” by Zachary J. Kriebs Grade 5 Sierra Madre Elementary School “Papa”, William said hopefully. “Do you mind telling me the story about you as a kid?” “Why, yes of course, […]