Reading, in my opinion, should always be a learning experience. I like to add in trinkets of information that people might find entertaining or interesting. For instance, something that I consider when I aggroup animals together is that some of them do have collective names. A parliament of owls, an intrusion of cockroaches, a memory of elephants, so on and so on. There are many websites that catalog the names -- and more! -- like this one, for instance.
I'd love to know if this is something others do as well -- include tidbits of knowledge in their writing, just little things, that progress the certainty of the writing?
Yes! I love to teach animal facts through my writings. As a matter of fact, in my picture book about Crab, Seagull and Whale, the reader learns that the crab lives in a sand burrow. So, that's more knowledge right there!
ReplyDeleteI also decided I wanted to write a picture book about a daddy seahorse and one of his offspring. Well, a seahorse offspring is called a "fry" which I thought was about the most adorable thing I had ever heard. So, I wanted to incorporate that into the story to allow the reader to learn something new.
So, yeah, I think writers should always try to find some unknown fact to incorporate that in their story as a little teaching lesson. :)
You know, eventually I will have to check out your picture books. They sound very fun for kids :D
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