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Books for Writing


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These are books in which characters engage in writing activities, and provide examples for your child of how writing can be useful and fun.



  1.  A Book of Letters by Ken Wilson-Max

  2.  A Nap in a Lap by Sarah Wilson

  3.  Beatrice Spells Some Lulus and Learns to Write a Letter by Cari Best

  4.  Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

  5.  Dear Miss LaRue by Mark Teague

  6.  Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex by Lisa McClatchy

  7.  Desperate Dog Writes Again by Eileen Christelow

  8.  Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin

  9.  Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French

  10.  Dumpy LaRue by Elizabeth Winthrop

  11.  From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book by Janet Stevens

  12.  Jolly Postman by Janet Ahlberg

  13.  Kids Are Authors: A Band of Coyotes by Scholastic Books

  14.  Kindergarten Diary by Antoinette Portis

  15.  Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian

  16.  Messages in the Mailbox: How to Write a Letter by Loreen Leedy

  17.  Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Fraiser

  18.  My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch by Graeme Base

  19.  Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street by Ronnie Schotter

  20.  Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver

  21.  Rocket Writes a Story by Tad Hills

  22.  Thank You, Miss Doover by Robin Pulver

  23.  T. F. Letters by Karen Ray

  24.  The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown

  25.  The Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown

  26.  Time For Bed by Mem Fox

  27.  What Do Authors Do? by Eileen Christelow

  28.  Written Anything Good Lately? by Susan Allen & Jane Lindaman