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Dragon Books For Children – Review

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Dragon books for children, book review.

Review by Boyu Huang                                                                                                 Allbooks Review.www.allbooksreviewint.com

Genre: Children’s books                                                                                                           Title: Sir Princess Petra: The Pen Pieyu Adventures                                                               Author: Diane Mae Robinson

Sir Princess Petra - The Pen Pieyu Adventures

Sir Princess Petra – The Pen Pieyu Adventures    Author: Diane Mae Robinson

Review: You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but it doesn’t hurt that Sir Princess Petra has a great one. A delightful story, it chronicles the adventures of a young princess become knight in shining armour. It’s everything you would want in a book: cute, funny, and with great messages. The adorable illustrations will serve as your companions as you eagerly flip the pages.

Robinson was honored with two major awards for the first work in the children’s book series, Sir Princess Petra. She was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artists Award for Children’s Book Author and took 2nd place in the Purple Dragonfly Book awards for Children’s Chapter Book.

I thoroughly enjoyed Sir Princess Petra and know many others will as well.

This book is highly recommended by Boyu Huang, Allbooks Review.www.allbooksreviewint.com

ISBN number: 978-1-61346-264-5                                                                               Publisher: Tate Publishing                                                                                           Number of pages: 64                                                                                                       Price: US $7.99 | CAN $9.24                                                                                               For more info on dragon books for children visit: http://www.dragonsbook.com

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Other dragon books for children:

Book two, Sir Princess Petra’s Talent – The Pen Pieyu Adventures,                                      pre-release editions available here: http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=9781625106827

Sir Princess Petra's Talent - The Pen Pieyu Adventures

Sir Princess Petra’s Talent – The Pen Pieyu Adventures

Release date: Sept., 24, 2013, and will be available on B &N, Amazon, Goodreads, Booktopia, and all other major distributors.

Synopsis: Sir Princess Petra has already proven she is a kind and noble knight. This, however, does not please the king and queen—they want her to behave like a princess and forget this
silly knight nonsense of hers!
But when the king writes a new rule in the royal rule book that requires her to attend Talent School and acquire a princess talent certificate or suffer the spell of the royal magician, Petra, reluctantly, agrees to go. But who could have guessed what Sir Princess Petra’s Talent would be?

Fantasy Kids Books – Character Building

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Fantasy kids books writing. One of the first things I do when creating characters in my fantasy kids books is to give them names, (once I know what they are; a nine-year-old princess, a dragon, etc) then an image of them starts to form gradually in my mind. After the image of each character forms, their personalities start to come alive. Once their personalities become clear, the plotting of a fantasy kids book is ready to be written.

Illustration by Samantha Kickingbird

Illustration by Samantha Kickingbird

This is my process for creating fantasy kids books and dragon books for children. The whole process takes months and as new details come to me, I jot them down on paper. Each character has their own section in my character log book.When I feel that the characters are whole and real, I start imagining what their adventures will be. I start to make a mini movie in my head as I visualize the ‘where and what’ of the plotting. The plotting is still work, but plotting seems to come so natural once the characters are fully formed.
When you’re writing fantasy kids books, adventure kids books, or any other genre of children’s book, you don’t have a lot of space to ‘tell’ about the character’s descriptions, nor do you want to. So a lot of the characteristics will come out as other characters meet them or through what that character is doing and saying.The really cool thing about getting your characters to be real and whole (even if a lot of that information isn’t told to the reader), is that it does come out in the story. It comes out in the “Show Don’t Tell” that all writers have heard a thousand times. I think it becomes a sub-conscious process to the writer because the writer knows her characters just as much as knowing a long-time friend. And if your characters are real to you, the writer, it is amazing how the illustrator will have the same vision as you had for those characters.
When book one, Sir Princess Petra, was in the illustration stage, I nervously waited and wondered what the artist’s vision of the main character, Petra Longstride, would be. I worried for all my characters. After all, I felt my reputation and all my hard work as the writer was at stake.

The thing about the whole creative process is this: if you, the writers, have made believable and whole characters, the illustrator gets it just as easily as if you had sent her photographs.

When I received the illustrations for book one, Sir Princess Petra – The Pen Pieyu Advenutres, they were perfect. All the characters were exactly as I had envisioned them. I had learned about this process in writing school, but until I had been through this process, I wasn’t sure that it actually worked. It does work. And when it did work, I knew I had done my job as the writer to create fully rounded, believable characters in my first book in this series of fantasy kids books.

Sir Princess Petra, the main character of the series, The Pen Pieyu Adventures.

Sir Princess Petra, the main character of the series, The Pen Pieyu Adventures.

This is exactly what Petra Longstride looked like to me, in my imagination, before the illustrations had even begun. The illustrator of the book is, Samantha Kickingbird and she was assigned by the publisher to my book. 

To make your characters real to the reader is the best things you can when writing fantasy kids books. 

To read more about my fantasy kids books / adventure books for children, go here.