Books for children who write

1) ALKASSIM ABDULKADIR’S DAUDA AND THE COCKEREL: Alkassim is a serial resource person from the day TTW began nine years ago. A natural with children, Alkassim’s book is a beautiful story that will encourage your children to read. It is simple and slim and reader friendly and was often a good resource for the children […]

1) ALKASSIM ABDULKADIR’S DAUDA AND THE COCKEREL: Alkassim is a serial resource person from the day TTW began nine years ago. A natural with children, Alkassim’s book is a beautiful story that will encourage your children to read. It is simple and slim and reader friendly and was often a good resource for the children and they take it home as part of their gifts and part of practice for writing well. This book is recommended for children who write.

2) Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Through the looking glass by same author: These books are the best for any child with a very keen sense of imagination. As a young person, I read Alice in wonderland over and over again. The entire book is full of magical moments which draw you into the book. Alice growing four times her size after eating mushrooms is the most amazing thing to inspire a writing child. There are other quirky things that happen in the book and I still marvel at its timelessness.

3) I Do Not Come to You by Chance by  Tricia Adaobi Nwaubani: This is a book that chronicles the amazing lives of advanced fee fraudsters for which Nigeria became famous for not too long ago and still gets knocks from the international community from time to time. This book is best enjoyed by teenagers and adults, but as our two time guest author, Tricia Adaobi Nwaubani has been phenomenal with the children telling them each time how she became an author and breaking writing down for every adventurous child.

4) West African Verse: This is a collection of West African poems that introduced me to poetry at a rather early age. Containing poems by J.P Clark, Wole Soyinka and many others; this collection is good for a young mind to begin their literary journey in poetry.

5) The Great Fall by Chinyere Obi-Obasi: Chinyere Obi-Obasi comes to teach the TTW participants three things. One, she talks about the discipline of being a writer and the joys and frustrations. She talks about her NLNG shortlisted book, then she talks about the very essence of the three magic words-Thank you, Sorry and Please. Mother, wife, writer, comedienne, compere, lawyer and serial entrepreneur, Chinyere is always a joy in the TTW house and all her birth kids have been past participants.