Five books to encourage creative and writing children

My story as a writing child is well told and this has followed me through the years, given me an edge and broadened my scope. A strong writing skill often sets you apart and imagination is a plus where ideas are concerned. In today’s highly competitive world, writing is an essentially valuable tool and those who are quick with their words and can deeply analyze tend to do better than those who spend a long time browsing the internet. Reading helps and writing is the ultimate reward. As we prepare for our annual children’s writing workshop The Treasured Writers, now in its eleventh year, it seems like only yesterday that we decided that we should give kids something totally different from what structured school institutions offer them. Lessons in kindness, charity, leadership guides, painting, cooking, writing and learning about your environment. The 2018 edition of the annual writing boot camp for children between the ages of 7-14 years has as its theme “Waste to Wealth”. While I will be happy to receive our 2018 participants on the 20th of August at Shehu Musa Yaradua center, our worthy partner, our guest resource person, the very resourceful Upcycle Architect, Binta Garba would be on hand to teach the kids how to convert what seems like a useless item to a charming item. Our subthemes this year aside from short story writing and essay writing include how to be a kinder person, using art for a greater good, money management and public speaking. We will also be having our very popular debate between parents and children about what each one does to annoy the other. We are so excited and we are now counting down to the 20th to run around, learn a lot, exhaust ourselves, enjoy ourselves and come out at the end of the week, better children. Here are five books in celebration of the 11th edition of The Treasured Writers for parents and children alike. Enjoy!