'Here is a worthy successor to Ted Hughes'Poetry in the Making, the book that enabled me to gain the confidence to begin to find my own voice as a story teller.Children Writing Storiesconfirms that we all have a story to tell if we are enabled to develop enough self-belief. So much of our natural creativity is smothered during our school years. Teachers and children feel hemmed in by the strictures of a curriculum which simply does not allow room for creativity to breathe. Unlock the chains, let the light in, and this is the kind of writing that will flow, this is the kind of intellectual and emotional growing that can transform young lives.' Michael Morpurgo, Children's Laureate 2003-2005'What a splendid book! Michael Armstrong pays attention - thirty years of it - to the stories that children write. We get two for one: the children's own delightful and intriguing work - I want to rush off and write some Wally (age 5) stories of my own - and Michael Armstrong's intense
