Children and young people are young, they are not stupid! On the contrary, as the story of the Emperor’s clothes illustrate – they cannot be bluffed! Generally, grown-up readers tend to be a little like sheep, following the opinions of opinion makers.
If a child gets bored with a story, he or she puts it down. He or she doesn’t battle through it because everyone else praises it. And children do not pretend that they have read a book everybody else seems to have read …
Writing for children teaches one to write well. You have to – otherwise they don’t read it!
