Christmas present query

[rivka]

What would you get a twelve-year-old girl who wants to be a writer?

I think we gave her a blank book last year. (Not because we knew that she was an aspiring author at that point, just because we got lucky. Or maybe that's why she now wants to be an author.)

There are a lot of books about writing aimed at kids and teenagers, but I have no idea of their quality.

There's also this writing journal, which, while not for kids, was recommended on Amazon by a young woman who describes herself as a "13-year-old writer."

Any recommendations?

Comments

I second this!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

She definitely needs to read and read and read. Gift cards are good (our equivalent to book tokens). The blank book suggestion is good, but not pretty ones--the bound exercise books are nice, but get little enough ones to fit in a backpack, and make them small the ones with hard covers. Give her a huge pack of eraseable pens, too.

I'd like to recommedn a book as well, Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle, which is old, but really captures the mindset well of a young woman who wants to be a writer.

Re: I second this!

[uilos.livejournal.com]

I Capture the Castle is a great book. It's one of my comfort books and entirely appropriate for this situation.