Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
The proper voice in the stories. The tool box II.
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: The proper voice in the stories. The tool box II.
Overview
“We continue to see the drawer of possible tools to add in our history.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: The proper voice in the stories. The tool box II., which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the basic components of a story to create tales for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“One of the resources that in this story will see is that there are some repetitions of structure and of some parts. This has to do with the idea that younger children, this, in the sense of that enumerative structure that we saw, it works a lot about certain repetitions, to be able to get ahead of what is going to come, to be able to ... Getting to known parts works well. No, of course, everyone has to have these parts, as I was telling you, but, in this case, as I chose that enumerative structure, I found it interesting to highlight it. The case would be now that if this comes to an editor...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing

Natalia Méndez
A course by Natalia Méndez
Natalia Méndez has been working as a publisher of books for children and young people since 2002.
It has its own artisan publishing label, called "Dábale arroz", together with Eduardo Abel Giménez and a very small ceramic and mini-book business "A la zorra".
She obtained a scholarship as a researcher from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and, in 2012, participated in the Frankfurt Fellowship program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And in addition, he gives classes in the Publishing and Literature career (UBA), training for writers (Casa de Letras) and training for children's book publishers.
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