Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing

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Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony ...

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Overview

Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett.

This is your journal for inward-bound adventures—use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine—and even rip!

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VOYA - Dotsy Harland
This innovative compilation of writing exercises for children is inspiring and therapeutic and can also be used by adults who need an artistic jump-start. Benke, who teaches creative writing workshops for elementary and middle school students, offers a host of activities to entice young authors to put pen to paper. Her fresh, boisterous writing style carries the participant through each assignment. These intriguing exercises are designed to stimulate the reader's imagination. They include such activities as imagining the "taste of a howl" or the "color of a baby's cry," and others that are based on memories, experiences, and the sheer joy of expressing oneself through writing. Scattered throughout the text are inspiring letters to the reader from such authors as Lemony Snicket, Gary Soto, and Avi. Benke also includes bits and pieces of poetry and prose written by these authors as well as children from her workshops. Participants are encouraged to let their imaginations run wild. The exercises include space to write in the book, and there are several light green pages labeled "Rip the Page!" that are meant for the reader to tear out and use to complete assignments, some of which explore deep emotions and others that simply help the reader experiment with wordplay. Benke's book is meant to be defaced, but her exercises can also be completed using separate paper. Readers of all ages will come away from this enjoyable adventure with a new appreciation for the power of words. Reviewer: Dotsy Harland
Children's Literature - Mary Quattlebaum
The start of a new year calls for adventure—and that spirit pervades this book of "open-ended writing experiments." Exercises involving shape-shifting, wacky word lists, nonsensical metaphors and memories encourage kids (and writers of all ages) to explore their inner world. This is no pristine text to tuck on the shelf but a guide to play with and scribble in. Karen Benke, an experienced writer in the schools, has gathered together writing prompts that have worked for her in the classroom—and added others by esteemed authors for children and young adults, including Avi, Annie Barrows, Lemony Snicket and Naomi Shihab Nye. Benke's lively writing style and the book's creative lay-out invite young people to jump right (write!) in. Reviewer: Mary Quattlebaum
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590308127
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 7/27/2010
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 132,691
  • Age range: 9 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Karen Benke has inspired children in the art of creative writing for sixteen years as a freewrite facilitator, creative writing coach, and poet-teacher in the California Poets in the Schools program, where she specializes in leading creative writing workshops for children seven to fourteen years old. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies and national literary journals. She is the recipient of two teaching grants from Poets & Writers and is a four-time grant recipient from the Marin Arts Council Fund for Artists.

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