“Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or from a Lincoln scholar writing an academic book on Lincoln. Each of these writers has a different audience and different goals. That's obvious.” WritingBookDifferentGoalResponsibilityAudienceObviousAcademicScholar Author:Russell Freedman
“With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.” ThinkingWritingBookKidsReadingLiteratureAudienceWorstChillIntimidating Author:Russell Freedman
“Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.” WritingDifferentKidsAudienceSpecial Author:Russell Freedman
