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This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
Dahl began to make up bedtime stories for the children, and these formed the basis of several of his stories. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] His first novel intentionally written for children, James and the Giant Peach , was published in 1961, [ 8 ] which was followed, along with others, by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Fantastic Mr Fox (1970), Danny ...
Chris Monroe (born 1962) – Monkey with a Tool Belt, Sneaky Sheep; Frances Trego Montgomery (1858–1925) – Billy Whiskers series; Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) – Anne of Green Gables series, Emily of New Moon; Susanna Moodie (1803–1885) – The Little Quaker, The Sailor Brother; Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) – "A Visit From ...
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
The Story of a Short Life, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1885) Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) A World of Girls, L. T. Meade (1886) The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (1888) Friday's Child (1889) Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew Lang (from 1889) Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson (1893) The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894)
Throwaway Kids was a two-part investigative report airing on the ABC News television series 20/20 in 1981. The report followed a nine-month undercover investigation by producers Karen Burnes and Bill Lichtenstein .
A story generator or plot generator is a tool that generates basic narratives or plot ideas. The generator could be in the form of a computer program, a chart with multiple columns, a book composed of panels that flip independently of one another, or a set of several adjacent reels that spin independently of one another, allowing a user to select elements of a narrative plot.
By mid-2016, the app had 700 stories written by professional authors and 9,000 stories written by users. [10] Hooked had 1.8 million downloads by 2016 [7] and 20 million download as of 2017, which generated $6.5 million in revenue. [12] The response to Hooked prompted others to create similar text-message based short story apps, like Yarn and ...