SERIES
Writer's Toolbox
Picture Window Books, 2009-2011
grades 2-4
32 pages
Distinguished Achievement Award
Association of Educational Publishers, 2010
Turn readers into writers! Using a single or small number of genre-specific works, this series
explores the tools all beginning writers need. Each title includes a review list of key concepts,
at least four exercises for getting started, and numerous writing tips.
Once Upon a Time:
Writing Your Own Fairy Tale
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ISBN 9781404853362 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404853355 (library binding)
ISBN 9781479573691 (interactive ebook)
It's All About You:
Writing Your Own Journal
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ISBN 9781404856981 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404855199 (library binding)
Sincerely Yours:
Writing Your Own Letter
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ISBN 9781404853393 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404853386 (library binding)
Show Me a Story:
Writing Your Own Picture Book
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ISBN 9781404853423 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404853416 (library binding)
ISBN 9781479532421 (interactive ebook)
Action:
Writing Your Own Play
illustrated by Dawn Beacon
ISBN 9781404863927 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404860179 (library binding)
Words, Wit, and Wonder:
Writing Your Own Poem
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
ISBN 9781404853454 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404853447 (library binding)
ISBN 9781479532438 (interactive ebook)
Just the Facts:
Writing Your Own Research Report
illustrated by Dawn Beacon
ISBN 9781404857025 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404855199 (library binding)
Share a Scare:
Writing Your Own Scary Story
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
Bank Street's 2011 "Best Children's Books of the Year"
(Category: Special Interest, Activity)
ISBN 9781404857001 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404855175 (library binding)
ISBN 978479573721 (interactive ebook)
Share a Scare:
Writing Your Own Scary Story
illustrated by Christopher Lyles
Bank Street's 2011 "Best Children's Books of the Year"
(Category: Special Interest, Activity)
ISBN 9781404857001 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404855175 (library binding)
ISBN 978479573721 (interactive ebook)
Make Me Giggle:
Writing Your Own Silly Story
illustrated by Cori Doerrfeld
ISBN 9781404857049 (paperback)
ISBN 9781404855182 (library binding)
Writer's Toolbox: Learn How to Write Letters, Scary Stories,
Poems, Fairy Tales, Journals, and Reports
Picture Window Books, 2010
192 pages
illustrated by Christopher Lyles, Dawn Beacon, and Todd Ouren
Poems, Fairy Tales, Journals, and Reports
Picture Window Books, 2010
192 pages
illustrated by Christopher Lyles, Dawn Beacon, and Todd Ouren
ISBN 9781404859050 (paperback compilation)
REVIEWS
Writer’s Toolbox (series) by Nancy Loewen. For grades 2-4, this series helps budding authors learn how write all sorts of things. There are titles to teach kids how to write fairy tales, picture books, scary stories, poems, and more. 10 titles total. We loved these for their beautiful illustrations, and because they take a real story example and walk the reader through the construction of it. They’re cute and charming, and extremely informative.
—Steam Powered Classroom
Amazing book for teachers! My go to book!
Shelly34, Amazon reviewer
Two new entries in the picture-book-size Writer’s Toolbox series explore two very different mediums—plays and comics—but, taken together, underscore the importance of basic fundamentals in effective writing. Both books combine original artwork and a number of “Tools” to get the creative juices flowing. Action! uses the classic story of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt to illuminate the 14 tools budding playwrights should keep in their arsenal, ranging from suggestions to plan out and cast your story first, to tips about stage directions, dialogue, and props. Throughout, Beacon’s art depicts scenes of the two J. J. J. Schmidts engaged in goofy high jinks alongside excerpts from the script. Art Panels, Bam! Speech Bubbles, Pow! features a young girl creating a comic about a dog and his lost bone and starts out with fairly broad directives to read other graphic novels for inspiration and brainstorm story ideas, before getting into graphic-novel-specific tips on laying out panel arrangements and dabbling in emanata and speech bubbles...A handful of “Getting Started Exercises” provide even more fodder for artistic inspiration in these genuinely good-natured and helpful introductions to creative writing."
Ian Chipman, Booklist
Writer’s Toolbox (series) by Nancy Loewen. For grades 2-4, this series helps budding authors learn how write all sorts of things. There are titles to teach kids how to write fairy tales, picture books, scary stories, poems, and more. 10 titles total. We loved these for their beautiful illustrations, and because they take a real story example and walk the reader through the construction of it. They’re cute and charming, and extremely informative.
—Steam Powered Classroom
Amazing book for teachers! My go to book!
Shelly34, Amazon reviewer
Two new entries in the picture-book-size Writer’s Toolbox series explore two very different mediums—plays and comics—but, taken together, underscore the importance of basic fundamentals in effective writing. Both books combine original artwork and a number of “Tools” to get the creative juices flowing. Action! uses the classic story of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt to illuminate the 14 tools budding playwrights should keep in their arsenal, ranging from suggestions to plan out and cast your story first, to tips about stage directions, dialogue, and props. Throughout, Beacon’s art depicts scenes of the two J. J. J. Schmidts engaged in goofy high jinks alongside excerpts from the script. Art Panels, Bam! Speech Bubbles, Pow! features a young girl creating a comic about a dog and his lost bone and starts out with fairly broad directives to read other graphic novels for inspiration and brainstorm story ideas, before getting into graphic-novel-specific tips on laying out panel arrangements and dabbling in emanata and speech bubbles...A handful of “Getting Started Exercises” provide even more fodder for artistic inspiration in these genuinely good-natured and helpful introductions to creative writing."
Ian Chipman, Booklist