I’ve written a guest post for the site, ProWriting Aid titled: “How Kid Reviewers Review Books.” In it, I offer five observations about book review that are written by kids to help children’s authors better understand their target audience.
About ProWriting Aid
ProWriting Aid is a site that offers an online editing tool to purchase to help improve your writing. You just paste your writing into their tool, and it gives you ideas for corrections and improvement.
They also have a blog that accepts guest posts in five categories: the writing process, blogging and content writing, grammar rules, writing apps, and how to use ProWriting Aid. In exchange, you receive a year’s subscription to ProWriting Aid, and your article is distributed to their readers.
Reading kid reviews
When I’m thinking of guest post ideas, I comb through my area of expertise. Most of that expertise is writing-based. But we all have a different writing experience. Luckily, I have experience in multiple areas of writing. One of those areas includes volunteer editing for LitPick.
I signed up to become a volunteer editor in 2017. It seemed like a low-maintenance, worthwhile job that would look good on a resume and give me some professional editing experience. Since I write children’s books, it would also give me insight into how a kid reader judges a book.
So, I went back through the reviews that I had edited and began to note similarities in these reviews. I came up with five things that I noticed about the reviews that I was being sent to edit. Then, I worked those observations into an article and submitted to ProWriting Aid.
The article
You can read my article here on ProWriting Aid’s blog.
I hope that it’s especially helpful for children’s book writers. While a review from an adult reviewer is always appreciated, it’s when you get positive feedback from a kid that you know you have achieved success as a children’s author.
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