What makes a good children’s science book?
Three authors on what it takes to write for young readers
One thing all authors ‒ including the three I spoke to ‒ agree on is that writing for a young audience is hard, often more difficult than writing for grown-ups. ‘Children’s books is proper writing, in fact, it’s a more specialised form of writing. It’s got to be the best you could possibly get,’ says James Carter, children’s poet and author of Once Upon an Atom, one of the books featured in the podcast.