Writing for Children.
Our Classic Course will help you to start writing your children's book based on the secrets of the bestselling authors of all time. Write your children's book with confidence with the our children's creative writing course tutor.
Discover the Story.
Your Story Starts Here.
We'll combine the ingredients of the bestselling books of all time with your own experience to create a powerful, original story for children. We're going to dig deep into the first stories that moved you to unearth the story only you can tell.
Learn the plot elements used by bestselling authors JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and more. You’ll leave the course with your story idea and plot mapped out, ready to write the book you're meant to write.
Start by creating your book idea in 45 gripping lessons on the Classic course - perfect for those writing for children.
Begin at the very beginning.
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards.”
JRR Tolkien
The Worldwide Bestselling Books of All Time. Did You Know?
Find out what they have in common and what makes their stories work from the 'portal' to the 'homely 'familiar' to 'temptation' to the 'sacrifice' and much more.
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien - 150 million +
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - 150 million +
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 140 million +
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s / Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling - 107 million +
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis - 85 million +
Delve into the secrets of the all-time bestsellers with over 45 exciting lessons.
You'll be on the edge of your seat.
A stand-alone course to take at your own speed in your own time. The lessons may take you 20 to 30 minutes to read, and the prompts or exercises can take as long as you want to give them. They'll certainly get you thinking, and creating! The course was created to help you come up with a big story idea. No previous experience or written work in progress needed. Here's where your story starts.
The Children's Book Courses.
Start building your idea and planning a big, bold story with our Classic Course.
Then write it with an expert Children's Fiction author tutor.
1. The Classic Course Box Set
Plan a novel for adults or children. Learn how the bestselling stories work in 45 inspiring lessons available immediately to take at your own pace to guide you to imagine a bigger, bolder story. Price £259 or $365.
2. The Classic Course Daily
Like the most wonderful of advent calendars, you will be drip-fed a lesson a day to pace your creative thinking. Two payments of £129 or $185. (A payment each month for 2 months total. The course payable in 2 instalments.)
3. The Novel Kickstarter
Plan, create and write a first draft of your children's novel with the Classic course, our Novel course and a year's Membership and expert coaching from our Children's Fiction tutor at The Novelry. A year's support with 6 one-to-one coaching sessions with your author tutor. Enjoy a 15% discount on the individual course prices. Price £950 or $1350. Available in all global currencies at checkout.
4. The Book in a Year Plan.
Plan, create, and write your children's novel to publishing standard with the Classic course, our Novel course, our famous Big Edit and a year's Membership and expert coaching from our Children's Fiction tutor at The Novelry. A year's support with 9 one-to-one coaching sessions with your author tutor. Save 10% on individual course prices when purchased separately. Price £1399 GBP or $1999 USD. Available in all global currencies at checkout.
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Our Children's Fiction Tutor.
Polly Ho-Yen.
The Exciting Children's Fiction Author.
Polly's first novel, Boy in the Tower, was published in 2014 by Random House Children's Publishers, and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her second novel Where Monsters Lie was published in 2016 and her third novel, Fly Me Home, was published in 2017. Both of these novels were also nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her new novel, her adult debut, Dark Lullaby, explores a dystopian future. When you sign up to one of our Book in a Year plans, you can choose Polly as your tutor.
The Course Author.
Louise Dean.
Founder of The Novelry.
Educated at Cambridge University, reading History with a special subject of 19th Century Novels, author Louise Dean, has won The Betty Trask Prize and Le Prince Maurice Prize, been nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award and the Booker Prize.
Her novels have been published internationally by Penguin Randomhouse, Simon & Schuster and others and praised by fellow authors Ali Smith and the Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee.
One of The Independent's Top Ten.
The Classic Course Graduate's Novel.
Susie Bower's novel 'The School for Nobodies' is featured in The Independent's top ten picks, ranked alongside all-time classics such as The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 'A rip-roaring adventure featuring a lost twin, circus tricks and shape-shifting.' Susie took the Classic course, the Ninety Day Novel course and our Editing course and The Novelry pitched her manuscript to our literary agency friends at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop.
“I joined an amazing online writing community called The Novelry. Up until then, I’d only written full-length fiction for adults but had got to the point where I’d lost momentum and couldn’t finish anything. I wailed to Louise at The Novelry that I had no ideas and she assured me that after the first week of The Novelry’s Classic course – I’d have something. She was right.”
The “Mind-Blowing” Course with Five Star Reviews.
“If you believe in magic, and I like to think we all do, then this course shows you how to create it in your writing.”
“Whether you are writing for adults or children it sprinkles glitter over necessary rules and gift wraps essential tools, then Louise waves her wand and sets you free. In one of the lessons, Louise writes “It's about life within life, and reclaiming our lives for ourselves through our senses and ennobling our purpose. ” This is more than a writing course this is a course on how to enrich your life by really seeing what is in front of your eyes. And once Louise shows you how to see it you can never unsee it.” Trisha Smith, South Africa.
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