Children's writing

Text-generating AI Creativity Engine claims that writer's block "could soon be a thing of the past for young authors".

The app uses the digitised archives of children's authors, including former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, Valerie Bloom and John Agard, to "drive young writers' imaginations". The young person starts writing a story and then take turns writing with the AI.  Read more

The history of children's books and literature, and the genre as a whole, has been the subject of many different debates: what makes a good children's book, whether adults should read children's books, and the ways that children's literature has been overlooked, denigrated, or considered ‘not real literature'.

Harriet Muncaster is the bestselling author of the Isadora Moon series and the middle-grade Victoria Stitch series (Oxford Children's Books). Her new book, Emerald and the Ocean Parade, was published on 2 March and introduces Emerald, Isadora's mermaid friend.

The popular author and illustrator of Dogger and the Alfie series has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

A recent study in People and Nature claims that animals are being written out of novels at a similar rate to their extinction in the real world. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research searched the entire online Project Gutenberg

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