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(Sometimes I even create new words!) I enjoy the rhythm and energy of the language, and I hope both the adults and children who read my books feel the same way. Writing stories that rhyme allow me to play with words and to challenge myself to find the right rhyming words. You can follow a particular format, or you can use free verse. There are so many ways to make a story work. Though all of my currently published books rhyme, I enjoy writing different types of books – rhyming/prose, fiction/nonfiction, picture books/early readers and chapter books.
Adults and children often read together, and rhyming books are often the first that children learn to read – or memorize – on their own. While this can be done with a non-rhyming book, it can occur more smoothly and intuitively when the text rhymes. Adult readers naturally pause as they wait for a child to fill in the missing word. Who doesn’t love chiming in with the word that rhymes with one that was read seconds earlier? The predictability of rhyme entices children to join in. Rhyme often enhances readability because it begs the reader to read along.Ĭhildren love rhyming stories, and adults enjoy reading them to children. The child should want to read it again and again. Is it a story with a traditional arc, a concept book, or another format? Whatever the case, the story needs to be engaging for a child. The rules around whether the story works are the same for any story. For example, it was natural for me to use rhyme for my stories in motion, LET’S DANCE!, TOGETHER WE RIDE, and RIDE, ROLL, RUN: TIME FOR FUN!, to convey action and fun. If the cadence of rhyme works well for the story and flows naturally, then rhyme may work best. If the story can be better told with prose, then that’s the approach to take. It also helps if the rhyme complements the story. The rhyme works if it is tight, not forced, and if the meter is correct. Why does an author choose to write a picture book in rhyme when we’ve often heard that some agents and editors are not interested in books that rhyme?Īgents and editors are interested if the rhyme works and the story is engaging.
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