Children's books

[justpondering0]

Just for abit of fun while I'm on a train

If you were going to write a children's book, what would your story be about?

I've written various things for the children for fun.

When they were smaller it was stories about themselves with photos. "DD1 has a nose" "Dd2 has a mouth" "dd1 hugs dd2" type thing.

When they got a bit older I used to do an adventure story party for dd. So there would be page of a story (usually fairy magic type based) and at the end it would finish with a challenge/game (get across the river using 3 stepping stones (pieces of paper) and they'd have to do it between them, then get a "magical item" to put in their bag (party bag to take home).

I've done a couple of fantasy type ones because I like world building, though aren't very good at it.

And I wrote an adventure story for dd2 who is missing her hand (so the MC is too) and complained that:

1. Almost anyone missing a hand in books is a villain (Captain Hook, Peter Pettigrew)
2. Any disabled characters in books are either put in as a sympathy vote as in "how lovely MC is to watch out for them" or entirely no character except for being disabled-ie if you hear of them they're either going to hospital, complaining about the disability or not being able to do something.

She wanted one that had someone who got on with life with some adjustments, and definitely was as capable as anyone else.