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About the Course

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell....

Top reviews

SV

Aug 26, 2023

its one of the best courses I have completed. just wonderful..very precise, revelant subjects and topics and very good activities. thankyou coursera. it was like meditation to me doing this course.

LM

May 20, 2018

I really enjoyed this course, though I never imagined myself as a writer of childrens fiction, it may very well look like, that my first book, might be exactly that.Thank you to the great teachers.

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By Carolyn P

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Jun 1, 2021

I I love reading

By Blue I

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Aug 14, 2015

Very informative.

By Pranab M

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Aug 9, 2015

Excellent course!

By Freider U G

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Apr 20, 2023

Muy interesante.

By Hiobi H

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Nov 1, 2017

Excellent cours!

By lakshmi g

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Aug 4, 2017

Very interesting

By NILESH C

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Jun 18, 2017

superb course !!

By Liliana H

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Aug 31, 2015

I just love it.

By Stephanie M

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Aug 14, 2015

Great class!!!!

By Dulee P

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Jun 13, 2022

Great course!

By David J M

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Dec 16, 2019

Great Course!

By Jaouad B

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Jan 8, 2017

Fantastic ...

By LaVonia A S

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Sep 21, 2015

Great course!

By Luis C P D l R

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Aug 23, 2015

Great course!

By ANKIT K

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Apr 28, 2022

nice course

By 罗詹妮

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Jan 3, 2016

stimulated.

By Candice H

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Feb 28, 2017

A very goo

By regina k

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Apr 1, 2016

wonderfull

By Anna A

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Dec 16, 2015

Wonderful!

By Ricardo P

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Aug 22, 2015

Inspiring!

By Evelyn M P

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Mar 9, 2016

The bese

By Afraz G

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Sep 19, 2016

Perfect

By Ellen C

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Feb 7, 2020

Great!

By Zhengyan W

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Aug 3, 2016

Really

By Deleted A

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May 8, 2020

Fun