KIDPUB
http://www.kidpub.com/KIDPUB is a children’s publishing service, its not free and has an annual subscription of $12.95 per year. It started in 1995 and is now recieving 1000+ stories a week.
The student members are writing and publishing their own stories, poems, plays, etc to an audience of their peers. They can enter writing competitions, collaborate on group stories and also review and comment on other students efforts.
Here is an extract from one of the recently published works (complete with spelling mistakes)
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The Un-Recued Princess; Chapter 10; Part 2
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by Maryam in NA |
Jolinda breathed out slowly. She could tell by the frightened look in Chubby’s eyes that if she didn’t make him calmer, she would lose him, quickly. Calm down, you’ll get nowhere by yelling at him.
She opened her eyes to apprehenscious-looking Adair, Jeffery, a wide-eyed Chubby, and a furious-looking Cheif, whose look was duplicated by Crow diligently. Raising her eyebrows, as though she was utterly and completely surprised by all these looks sent to her, Jolinda dropped genteely to the ground and sat in an appropriate cross-legged fashion ”
They also have a school’s section where classes can publish.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:45 am
Hi, I’m the guy behind the curtain at KidPub. Thanks for the mention! I wanted to take a sec and describe our philosophy. Most kids love to write, but not all of them are comfortable sharing their work…they are shy, or feel it isn’t good enough…many reasons. KidPub is a safe, fun place for them to share. We don’t correct errors, criticize in any way, or tell anyone that their story isn’t good enough to publish. We think that this encourages our young authors to write, write, and write some more…and it’s the act of writing that we want to encourage. Posting on KidPub gives the child confidence and builds pride, and we hope that this will carry forward in their lives. The bottom line is that we want kids to get the feeling that writing is a Good Thing.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:40 am
[...] blogged earlier about KidPub, I felt that this was an excellent tool for encouraging students to publish their works and [...]