With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, o… - Russell Freedman
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, o…
- Russell Freedman
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required… - Russell Freedman
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required…
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered… - Russell Freedman
Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been filtered…
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, … - Russell Freedman
I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, …
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading … - Russell Freedman
With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading …
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meanin… - Russell Freedman
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them in any meanin…
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you fin… - Russell Freedman
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you fin…
If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful fo… - Russell Freedman
If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful fo…
I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want to be writers but who … - Russell Freedman
I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids who want to be writers but who …
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