Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Writing

Provides information on uncovering one's traits and abilities, careers in writing, career resources, and people with writing careers.

By helping kids identify their personality traits and skills, each engaging volume in this series provides step-by-step self-assessments followed by a series of job profiles, which cover all the basics, resources for further research, and spotlights on real people doing the job.

An engaging career guide for kids who enjoy writing.

Praise for the previous hardcover edition:
"...loaded with good information that acts like a road map for children who want to know what classes and experiences would be most helpful in order to pursue a career that interests them." School Library Journal

For kids who display a knack for turning a phrase, the written word can offer many satisfying career choices in a number of fields, such as book publishing, journalism, and library science.

Career Ideas for Kids Who Like Writing, Second Edition offers an updated hands-on tour of the many career options available in a number of eclectic fields. Providing step-by-step self-assessment followed by a series of job profiles, this freshly updated guide covers all the basics and provides resources for further research. Extensive photographs and illuminating interviews are also included to help kids find ways to explore their options as potential professionals in the writing field.

Career profiles include:

• Author
• Book producer
• Editor
• Freelance writer
• Journalist
• Librarian
• Literary agent
• Publicist
• and more.