Bookcase for Young Writers is a free web companion to our book Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age published by the University of Massachusetts Press in December 2019.

This online bookcase features virtual shelves filled with literature, apps, and interactive digital tools to inspire children from preschool and kindergarten through the upper elementary grades to become confident, expressive, creative young writers. 

The Bookcase includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as picture books, chapter books, and e-books. There are links to child-engaging information and topics related to all the writing ideas in the Book.

This bookcase is intended as a place for children, teachers, families, librarians and other adults to find books and other resources to inspire young writers.

We have selected the following types of book titles:

• • Books where one of the main characters is a writer to show youngsters the power of written communications. In many stories, the writer is a child so youngsters see other children using writing to create and express ideas.

  • Books that showcase different writing genres to offer young writers an introduction to different forms of writing. We include multiple forms of poetry, fiction writing, and nonfiction among the genres in the bookcase.

We hope you enjoy the Bookcase.

Sharon A. Edwards (sedwards@educ.umass.edu)

Robert W. Maloy

Torrey Trust

University of Massachusetts Amherst