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You don’t have to tell young readers as much as you think
There is sometimes an assumption that younger readers won’t understand what’s going on unless the plot and the characters’ feelings are…
Steve Voake is the award-winning author of more than 20 books for young people including The Dreamwalker’s Child, The Starlight Conspiracy and Blood Hunters. He was longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize, has experience as a headteacher in Somerset and has taught a writing master class for the Guardian. He was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University for 17 years.