Want to write better? Read children’s books

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I recently revisited Donald Murray's Writing to Deadline: A Journalist at Work.

I found it interesting that during one of the interviews in the book he asks the journalist, David Arnold to recommend some books that will help writers improve their craft.

Arnold said, “Almost any good children's book…. Children's books often have complex themes, yet the writing is clear and condensed, the vocabulary elementary, alliteration and rhythms of the words and phrasing is playful and always audible, and the humor very funny…. I recommend Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Amos and Boris by William Steig, and One Morning in Maine by Robert McClosky…” (p. 27).