Writing Fantasy for Children
It’s not a child’s play to write for children. And the reason lies in the source itself. A child has got an intense and vivid imagination. His sense of wonder allows him to believe even the unreal or fanciful. A writer needs to keep his own child-likeness alive in order to pen down such highly imaginative literature. Take for example, the amazing world of Gulliver Travels. Be it the flying island of Laputa, the disappearing servants at Glubbdubdrib, the immortal Struldburgs or the perfection of nature as personified in Houyhnhnms which is a society of horses – these stunning characters and attributes form part of a fantastic voyage that Gulliver undertakes to discover new pastures. Jonathan Swift has worked out and delineated the minutest of details with such precision that leave apart the children, even adults reading this wonderful novel are mesmerized completely. The story moves at a quick pace from one event to the other thus satisfyi...