What age child wrote this?

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Hello, my dd started writing a book. What age do you think wrote this?
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A skinny grey and black shape was sitting on the rough soil. ‘’There. That’s the last one,’’ He said, as he planted the last tree in. “Hey, Lucifer.’’ said a familiar voice. It was Summer. He liked Summer. Her voice was as smooth as a rose in the afternoon sunshine. Summer had ginger fur, vivid green eyes, and a long, stretched out tail. Ah, he missed her. “Whatcha doin’?’’ she pondered. ‘’The groups waiting,’’ Summer drawled out, tilting her head to the side in a sassy way as Lucifer stood up. His tail ached. Why did his tail ache? ‘’Yeah, yeah. Comin,’’ He walked with Summer through a pathway, mostly hidden by the trees. The hard stone strewn across the ground was marble white. They went all the way to the mysterious structure in a clearing of the lush forest.

The building was a hazelnut brown and cerulean blue and the wooden roof was a rusty brown. It was quite homey, flower pots with various small plants taking up the space on the windowsills in front of the light grey tinted windows, blinds drawn, blocking the view of the inside building. Hazelnut wood accompanied by various highlights of blue was the main feature of the structure, a few white poles holding up the roof over the doors and windows on the top row of the vertical glass surfaces peaking into the building, allowing light to flood through.

Both Lucifer and Summer noticed a figure, slightly larger than them and with rougher fur, sitting outside of the building.
“Hey, Maggie… and who’s that?" Lucifer questioned, giving a fleeting glance at the waiting cats. “Oh, just a visitor,” She looked strangely guilty, but for what reason? Maggie was honourable, she had her fair share of knowledge. Maybe he could ask her. “Maggie, tell me now. Who is it?’
“Um, ok. I know this sounds weird, but, um…’’ She stammered.

“That's my father.’’
“Your FATHER?!’’ Lucifer reared back. ‘’Why and how is he here? Shouldn't he be in the kingdom of Khid?’’
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Interested to know what others think of this writing, thanks!

Me too! I think they are much more likely to be male but female ones do exist.

Age: 5?

I agree. Although the tail boner (?) would make me think early teenager?

Dd would have written like that from year 4, ds is 18 and still couldn’t write like that, so anything between 8 and 18!

I'd say an intelligent & imaginative 10/11 year old.

Why do you ask?

Primary age. I reckon yr 5.

About year 6

3

8/9?
Dd's English creative writing work was very similar last year (year 4), her stories became much more descriptive, overly so in fact.

Age 10ish. Year 5/6
Though I know a few precocious types who could have written that in Year 4.

Late primary when they are encouraged to write overly descriptive text at the expense of plot/action.

I think age 10 or so. She clearly loves writing and should definitely be encouraged.

I would say 8-12 based on the type of creative writing lessons my age 10 son describes them doing in school and the kinds of techniques they are learning about with different children better at it than others. Not that he would write anything like this off his own back (he's just not interested) but when it's required at school, he would write in a similar way. Everything has an extra adjective, lots of different words found for "said" and a couple of similes thrown in etc. He'd definitely try being a smart-alec and put in things like "cerulean."

This, it's classic formulaic writing. So age 9-11 I'd say.

My daughter is in yr3 and I would say this is a bit advanced for her class work so year 4

10?

I don’t know but it’s lovely.

2?

You know why. So the OP can come back and say we're all wrong, they're only 4 and a half. And aren't they gifted for their age, etc, etc.

Upper primary age.

Yes this 😂. My 8 (nearly 9) year old loves warrior cats and I can imagine her writing something like this!

Definitely Primary. Have they just done adjectives at school?
It's really sweet that she's writing stories at home. Encourage that!

14

Who knows my very good at English 7yo could write this but my imagination of a snail 12yo couldn't