Are you interested in writing for children and/or teens? Here are some helpful Web sites and books to help you get started.

Books

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg

Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, by Natalie Goldberg

Gates of Excellence: On Reading and Writing Books for Children, by Katherine Paterson (I highly recommend reading all of Paterson's novels.)

What's Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction, by Marion Dane Bauer

Locomotion, by Jaqueline Woodson (This is a free-verse novel. But I think if you read it, you will understand why I'm listing it here.)