GET KIDS TO READ
As you can see, my daughter had some fun with a magnifying glass and a camera.
Which gave me an idea…
Wouldn’t this be a cool, interactive way to involve kids in stories.
Obviously, this story would be about Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf.
Use the magnifying glass to make Big Eyes, a Big Mouth, and Big Ears.
It wouldn’t be a bad thing to get more kids to enjoy reading.
More than that, this is a marketing opportunity for children’s authors.
I don’t mean Little Red Riding Hood. I mean the idea of making the storytelling fun and interactive. Not necessarily with a magnifying glass.
Surely, you can think of some other prop relevant for your story.
When you interact with kids in person, that fun moment that you create may help to get the kids—or more importantly, their parents—interested in your brand of authorship.
Online, your cool idea for making storytelling may help your marketing. You can post cool pics (with permission, of course) showing your idea. You can market the idea of helping to make reading fun, while indirectly benefiting your book and your brand as author. Or you might create a viral Facebook post or YouTube video.
Or just mentioning the prop and its use for your story might prove to be a valuable merchandising tip.
It’s all about inspiring more kids to enjoy reading. But if you’re a children’s author and can benefit from helping to achieve this, there is a possible bonus in there.
Write happy, be happy. 🙂
Chris McMullen
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Anything that inspires children to read is a great idea! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Exactly. 🙂
Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
If the book YOU’RE reading isn’t enjoyable – pick up a book for Kids – if they see YOU reading it and giggling, THEY will read it too 😀
That’s a great idea. 🙂
I remember seeing a book or two in the past with props. Mostly cheap things like plastic sheriff badges and fairy wands. They’re not very common though and I think a magnifying glass would be really cool.
It’s also cool for learning about bugs. 🙂
Yup. Though spiders get irritable of you stare for too long. Then they jump.
Jumping spiders give me the heebie jeebies. 🙂
It’s what they were created for.
This is amazing
Thank you. 🙂
I feel so blessed that my son loves to read. He’s five and just learned this year at school. Now he reads EVERYTHING he sees, which I’m sure will cause an issue at some point soon. But still proud, nonetheless. 😉
That’s a great problem to have: reading too much. 🙂
Great idea. Anything that inspires children to read is a wonderful idea.
Thank you. That is so true. 🙂