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daisyninjagirlThank you! I'm really looking forward to your story.
For this particular exchange, I would really prefer a Gen or Teen rated story - I'm cool with if you want to age child characters into adults for your story, but I think I'd feel a bit weird with characters I bonded with as a kid having explicit kissy kissy fun times, or at least not for a children's book focused exchange. Apart from that, have fun! The prompts I've given are there for ideas, but if they don't work out for you go for the story that you'd enjoy writing.
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
I would love a story about Petrova, who was always the coolest. We know that during WWII she was an Air Transport pilot - but what happened after? Was she happy? What did she do to get into the history books? Maybe she goes to Russia to find out what happened to her family after she was adopted? If Petrova isn't your thing, it might also be fun to have a story about Gum's overseas adventures - and why was he so dreadfully forgetful about writing?
Curtain Up | Theater Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
I think for Noel Streatfield stories that I'm all about the sequels, she writes such individual stories. What's the deal with Miranda - does she ever learn to be nice to people? What kind of event would that take? Does Winifred ever get to have a win and a triumph? How do things work out for Mark when he goes back to his regular school?
For a bonus side prompt, when I was a kid we had the abridged version, and I recently got to read the full book. There was a chapter in there about the students doing a concert at a hospital for merchant seaman, and this little detail about Sorrel being nice to a Chinese sailor and him giving her a lucky fish. So two things struck me - one the chapter made me want to cry, and the other one was thinking about context and figuring that Noel Streatfield probably knew some Chinese people back in the War and that maybe she was writing from personal experience, back when I think people were a lot more segregated than they are now. So that really interested me.
The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage - Margaret Mahy
This is the most glorious book of all time! Pirates! Orphans! A diamond doorknob the size of a piano mover's fist! And the piano mover. I would love a story about The Week After the events of the novel are resolved. Because obviously, they couldn't get any less complicated.
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Could I possibly have a story about Max's Mom? It must take a special kind of person to have supper ready, and it was still hot, just for when her kid was ready to come home. Did she have adventures of her own in the Land of the Wild Things? Max is a very wild sort of boy - is his mother a secretly wild sort of person?
For this particular exchange, I would really prefer a Gen or Teen rated story - I'm cool with if you want to age child characters into adults for your story, but I think I'd feel a bit weird with characters I bonded with as a kid having explicit kissy kissy fun times, or at least not for a children's book focused exchange. Apart from that, have fun! The prompts I've given are there for ideas, but if they don't work out for you go for the story that you'd enjoy writing.
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
I would love a story about Petrova, who was always the coolest. We know that during WWII she was an Air Transport pilot - but what happened after? Was she happy? What did she do to get into the history books? Maybe she goes to Russia to find out what happened to her family after she was adopted? If Petrova isn't your thing, it might also be fun to have a story about Gum's overseas adventures - and why was he so dreadfully forgetful about writing?
Curtain Up | Theater Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
I think for Noel Streatfield stories that I'm all about the sequels, she writes such individual stories. What's the deal with Miranda - does she ever learn to be nice to people? What kind of event would that take? Does Winifred ever get to have a win and a triumph? How do things work out for Mark when he goes back to his regular school?
For a bonus side prompt, when I was a kid we had the abridged version, and I recently got to read the full book. There was a chapter in there about the students doing a concert at a hospital for merchant seaman, and this little detail about Sorrel being nice to a Chinese sailor and him giving her a lucky fish. So two things struck me - one the chapter made me want to cry, and the other one was thinking about context and figuring that Noel Streatfield probably knew some Chinese people back in the War and that maybe she was writing from personal experience, back when I think people were a lot more segregated than they are now. So that really interested me.
The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage - Margaret Mahy
This is the most glorious book of all time! Pirates! Orphans! A diamond doorknob the size of a piano mover's fist! And the piano mover. I would love a story about The Week After the events of the novel are resolved. Because obviously, they couldn't get any less complicated.
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Could I possibly have a story about Max's Mom? It must take a special kind of person to have supper ready, and it was still hot, just for when her kid was ready to come home. Did she have adventures of her own in the Land of the Wild Things? Max is a very wild sort of boy - is his mother a secretly wild sort of person?
