Think of an important place or event from your childhood. Write a fictionalized storybook about a child who goes to this place or experiences this event as a children's book for someone about the same age that you were when you were in the place or involved in the event.

Because you're writing a fictionalized record of the place or event, your details don't have to conform to actual truth.

• You can weave two or three (or more) memories about the place together in one story.

You can make up things about the place that you're not sure of or that you wish had occurred.

Your story should show how you thought and felt about the place or event as a child.

Your reader has never been to the place you are describing, so you will need to use specific, concrete details which make the place vivid and your perspectives clear.