Write Like Children's Authors
The authors who shaped our childhoods. Write with the whimsy of Dr. Seuss, the dark humor of Roald Dahl, or the warmth of Beverly Cleary.
Dr. Seuss
Rhyming, whimsical, nonsense words that make perfect sense.
Roald Dahl
Dark humor, invented words, gleeful cruelty to awful adults.
J.K. Rowling
Immersive world-building, British wit, chosen-one mythology.
Shel Silverstein
Simple, profound poetry. Where the sidewalk ends.
Maurice Sendak
Wild, dreamlike, emotionally honest picture book prose.
Beverly Cleary
Warm, realistic, everyday childhood captured perfectly.
C.S. Lewis
Allegorical, warm, profound simplicity. Narnia's moral imagination.
Eric Carle
Repetitive, rhythmic, sensory. 'But he was still hungry.'
R.L. Stine
Cliffhanger endings, spooky atmosphere, kid-friendly dread.
Judy Blume
Honest, taboo-breaking, emotionally true coming-of-age.
Lemony Snicket
Sardonic, vocabulary-building, literary darkness. A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 books) + companion texts + essays.
Philip Pullman
Epic, philosophical, anti-authoritarian. His Dark Materials trilogy + The Book of Dust + essays on storytelling.