Five Pages a Day: A Writer's Journey

By Peg Kehret

The author of her autobiographical Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, now shares the story of her writing career, which began at the age of ten when she wrote and sold her own newspaper, which... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807586501
• ISBN13: 9780807586501
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Five Pages a Day: A Writer's Journey

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in becoming a writer for children. This author was introduced to me by my granddaughter as her favorite writer. I read several of her books and they are all excellent. This particular book gave me lots of ideas as a writer and was very motivating. I highly recommend this book as well as her other books.

highly readable autobiography

This inspiring story of a woman who made her childhood dream of becoming a writer come true shows that you can accomplish anything if you are willing to work at it. Kehret, who embodies stick-to-itiveness, started young, with a neighborhood newsletter which folded fast, but went on to be a fact checker at a local newspaper. Her prolific writing career includes winning contests for ads and jingles with her poetry, "true stories" for magazines, plays, books for adults, and children's fiction and nonfiction. In one anecdote, Kehret tells how the Library of Congress called her to verify that she was indeed the author of many varied works. Because her book Small Steps (Albert Whitman 1996) goes into detail about her experience of having polio as a child, this book focuses more on her lifelong career as a writer. Although she came late to children's literature, the numerous awards and accolades indicate she was worth the wait.May require some pushing, but this is a highly readable autobiography for fans of Kehret, those assigned the biography report, or research for budding writers.