A special feature of this teaching anthology is the "From the Author" column that accompanies every story and article. Here the writers describe their diverse backgrounds and experiences and share with you the techniques they used to create, develop and market their successful manuscripts. 188 pages.

Featuring 84 authors' motivating and inspiring stories behind

    --how they created the ideas for
         their stories and articles

    --how they developed the pieces, and

    --how they marketed and sold
         them to editors

Together with the 84 actual stories and articles with which they found success in today's marketplace

From 49 leading children's magazines

Organized into fiction vs. nonfiction

Arranged by youngest readers, intermediate readers, teen readers

Plus, You Will . . .

Learn how to write to 49 top editors' specifications

Hear the different voices that work with various age groups

See the pacing, vocabulary, sentence structure, complexity levels that work

Read successful humor, adventure, sports, problem stories, science fiction,    historical pieces, profiles, how-to and crafts, social and personal issue pieces

Be inspired by these authors' stories of how they got published

Apply it all to enhancing your own writing