What do you mean by a 'scary first grader? Thank you for this great question, and Dils, (2009, p. 23) claims that it is often very difficult for writers-since they are adults to remove that adult perspective from a story. Too often, an adult’s voice intrudes, or an adult character steps in to save and offer a solution to the story’s problem. Ms. Pat, like me for example, we cannot think like an adult when we write children’s book. In the sentence, “Poocho was a scary first grader.” Using a childlike strategy and without giving too many details, I provided what the term “scary” meant. The proceeding sentence clearly explained: His (referring to Poocho’s) fear of standing in front of his classmates to spell his test word caused him a great
