article_snippet.sent: ’s author last year – insisted that such writers should challenge such writers young readers and not be ‘afraid of powerful stories or serious ideas’.
article_snippet.sent: ’s author last year – suggested such writers should follow the example of authors such as John Green and ‘write up for children, not down to children’.
article_snippet.sent: Foyle’s War was troubled that children’s books
article_snippet.sent: Foyle’s War added: ‘To some extent, narrative fiction was reinvented by JK Rowling –
article_snippet.sent: it’s hard to believe that children weren’t challenged by books that stretched to 760 pages – and a phalanx of writers crested on her success: Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Eoin Colfer, Darren Shan... and me. '
article_snippet.sent: Horowitz said ‘the idea that children automatically dislike reading or that books belong to a more fusty, ancient generation is patently absurd’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Write up for children, not down to an audience of largely unpublished writers in New York.
article_snippet.sent: We don’t need to be afraid of powerful stories or serious ideas.
highlights_snippet.sent: Author Anthony Horowitz argues authors should not be afraid of 'powerful stories or ideas' 