Writing tips and activities to help readers become writers of tall tales. Tall tales are chock-full of heroes whose impossible explots often explain America's landscape. Their incredible adventures will leave you grinning. Some of the larger-than-life characters in these whoppers are based on real people, while others spring forth from the imaginations of writers just like you.
Provides tips on how to write mystery stories, including how to get started, how to create characters, and how to develop plots. Includes suggestions from famous authors. Great mysteries often begin with a simple question: Who did it? Mysteries follow their characters on journeys to discover the culprit. ALong the way, suspense builds as the characters throw themselves into dangerous situations while they edge nearer and nearer to the truth. Readers can hardly wait to find out what happens next.
There's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool . Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows beginning cartoonists, retro fans, and all other hipsters how to get that almost-1950s look in their drawings. His trademark step-by-step drawings and crystal-clear text are sure to make Saturday mornings more creative!
And One Last Thing... will keep you entertained from beginning to end! Harper's got such a fresh, witty voice that immediately captures the reader and the characters she writes about are so alive that you'll immediately cheer for them, or boo them.
Carl Hiaasen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, has earned a reputation for perceptive, sharp-edged suspense that also cuts to the bone of environmental issues. His novels have been translated into many languages and are touted worldwide for their quirky characters and surreal adventures set in the ravaged cultural wasteland of southern Florida.
