Write On! Features: Should Children’s Writing Be Sugar-Coating Their World? By Mary Walsh
By Mary Walsh
Originally published in Write On! Magazine, issue 11
When writing a book for children with a plot involving sensitive issues such as racism, sexual abuse, cruelty, neglect
and death, do you sugar-coat it to make it appear ‘nicer’ or do you portray the world as it is, warts and all?
In ...