Contact. Lois Longwood, director of Degree Programs, at (360) 650-6854, or lois.longwood@wwu.edu.
BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University's Extended Education and Summer Programs will offer a new course this fall designed to help students of all ages learn to write literature for children.
With expert guidance, students will experiment and sample the field, exploring children's fiction and nonfiction, including picture books, chapter books, middle-grade books, and books for young adults. Focus will be placed on essential literary elements such as plot, character, setting, dialogue, and that all-important first chapter.
The 10 sessions will run from Sept. 21 to Nov. 23, and will meet each Monday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The sessions will be broken down into three sections; the first section, "Children's Books: My Recipe for Success," will be taught by Nina Laden, an award-winning, best-selling author and illustrator of children's books; the second section, "Mythic Underpinnings in Children's Literature," will be taught by Caldecott Award-wining author and illustrator Paul Owen Lewis; the last section, "The Other End of the Pencil," will be taught by Laurel Leigh, a longtime project manager for San Francisco's Chronicle Books.
An information session for this course will be held on Thursday, June 11, at 7 p.m. at Village Books in Fairhaven.
For more information about this course or the information session, contact Lois Longwood at (360) 650-6854, or lois.longwood@wwu.edu.
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