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Top 4 Children's Fantasy Picture Books to Try

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They often say that fantasy books are meant for children but when it comes to checking out creativity, age is never a bar. Moreover, we are talking about fantasy fiction, a genre widely popular for a huge diversity, wide imagination, and plenty of options to try. If we have to wrap up the names of all the greats of fantasy picture books, we will probably end up filling a separate book with just names. So, let’s not talk about everything and just focus on kids. We decided to bring you a list of 4 amazing fantasy books for kids that can inspire your young one’s mind. Laura Numeroff- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura has perfectly depicted how one thing leads to another with her story about a boy who offers a cookie to a mouse which makes the mouse thirsty for milk. This further goes on for straw and then a mirror and so on until the beautiful fantasy picture book. So, some adults there may question how that’s a fantasy. Let me ask you this- when was the last time a mouse came to yo...

3 Important Tips for High Fantasy Book Writing

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Fantasy writing has been an aspiration for writers of all age groups. Moreover, whether an aspiring author or an experienced one, anyone can captivate readers through fantasy writing if done right. But even after being a fantasy book author , many don’t know high fantasy writing and those who do hesitate writing for high fantasy. For all those fantasy book authors, here are some useful tips for captivating high fantasy. What is High Fantasy? One of the great names in writing fantasy fiction books, Lloyd Alexander came with the term ‘high fantasy’ for the first time in 1971, where he titled an essay published in The Horn Book Magazine as “High Fantasy and Epic Romance”. The Chronicles of Prydain author described it as a fiction fantasy shown in parallel or secondary worlds. By that time, most of the fantasy books were set on our actual world with some magical creatures, events, characters, and more. The most common attribute of high fantasy has been its setting of an alternate wo...