Travel your home, your backyard, your street, your neighborhood, your city or town even, alphabetically capturing the people and/or the places and/or the things you both observe.īio: Esther Hershenhorn is a former teacher, a mom, and a writer who currently writes children’s picture books and middle grade fiction. Make a date with your Young Writer to visit a chosen destination and describe the location alphabetically! Now it’s your turn to create a variation of that book! My grown son and I recently paged through the book, laughing at the images of his Favorite Things and People: Aunt Judy, school bus, the Cookie Monster, toes and Volkswagens! ARTIST DATE ACTIVITY: It was eventually returned due to the high cost of manufacturing. Titled The A to Z of Me, I actually sold the book in a universally-usable format to a publisher of gift books. Long long ago, before the Internet and ePublishing, before cellular cameras and Snapfish, I’d written my very first children’s book, a photo album, actually, to celebrate my son’s First Birthday, and guess what it was? An alphabet book!
I’ve spent the past year visiting schools, often helping students create their own meaningful alphabet books – about their classrooms, their schools, their families, their lives. I’m forever grateful for the M word they gave me. What words would they need to find? Maybe plot, character and revision.įortunately, I had the help of fifth graders at the Louisa May Alcott School in Lincoln Park in my hometown of Chicago, where I’m sometimes known as The Author Lady. What words would they want to find? Maybe journal and notebook. What words would they expect to find in my book? Maybe alphabet and book, for starters.
The possibilities were endless.įirst and foremost, though, like all writers, I had to think about my readers.
The purpose was offering Young Writers an A-to-Z journey through a writer’s process and life.Ĭhoosing my book’s twenty-six words took time and thought. I had great fun creating my newest book, S is for Story: A Writer’s Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press, ’09) – especially once I focused on my book’s purpose. Guest post by Esther Hershenhorn, author of S is for Story in our summer artist’s date series.
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