Writing A Children's Book About Lewis And Clark

I choose to write a children's book about Lewis and Clark because their exploration of the new territory has always interested me. I was especially interested in Lewis and Clark when I was younger. I loved to learn of different adventurers like Marco Polo and Lewis and Clark. That’s why I thought it was a good idea to write a children's book about them. It would make it so I can express my interest in the topic and make it so younger kids can understand and enjoy. I also never read any children's books about Lewis and Clark when I was in Elementary school because there weren’t many Lewis and Clark book’s I could get and the ones I could get were either very difficult to read or I couldn’t understand it at all. This was because of the difficult language they used in the different books. That’s why I decided to create a children's book about Lewis and Clark then doing a something different with something else or someone else.

In my children’s book there were a lot of facts that I thought were nonessential or might be confusing to children that would read it. Most of these facts had to due with different areas that Lewis and Clark were in or …show more content…
I leaned that had to think like I was an elementary student to see if I could understand the writing. This made me edit my writing so that it was shorter and easier to understand. I also couldn’t just have facts. I realized that if it was just facts the children would daze off and would not listen to the story. This made use facts more sparingly and have them in between parts that would interest the children. Lastly, I learned that the images you have on the page should directly be what the text is about. This is because if one or more of the children don't understand the text they can look at the image and get a better idea of what is happening. This made the images I had throughout my book very simple and easy to