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Written by JJ Barnes
I interviewed my daughter, Rose McKinney, about the book we wrote together when she was 6 years old; Nature-Girl Vs Worst Nightmare.
My name is Rose and I am in year 4. I live in Staffordshire with my mummy, my daddy, my baby sister, Buffy, and my step brother, Zeke. I have a dog named Molly and a cat named Batman. I love dinosaurs, Lost, Dr Who, Harry Potter and art. My favourite food is cauliflower.
When I started playing with my friends and I came up with the character Nature-Girl and I wanted to tell her story. My mummy and daddy both write books and I think it’s really cool so I wanted to write a book to be like them. I’m super lucky because they said I could and liked my ideas.
I asked my mummy if we could write a book together about Nature-Girl when I was 6 years old. We talked about what the story could be about and I came up with other characters and the school they go to; Miss Sparkles Academy For Magical Children.
It took about 6 months. We would talk about what happens next then my mummy would type it up. Sometimes I would type bits of it on my mummy’s computer and then we’d talk about how to spell the words properly.
I had a million ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down into a story that people could read.
Making sure my mummy would be able to understand my ideas. Sometimes I had SO MANY ideas and we had to make sense of them so the story would make sense.
The day I came up with Nature-Girl, my friends and I were having Nature Day at school, and we had to find different kind of leaves and bugs. It made me think of Nature-Girl because I liked doing it. I like nature and I thought she could be a superhero.
I just thought of a good name and I thought Worst Nightmare was a cool and spooky name. Then I thought he should be everything people are scared of because that’s really creepy.
Nature-Girl and her friends find a Bad Dream in the woods outside their school. Bad Dreams are Worst Nightmare’s sidekicks. They know that means danger is coming because when Bad Dreams come that means Worst Nightmare is coming.
Nature-Girl and her friends need to defeat Worst Nightmare and find out why he is attacking the academy.
The other conflict is Nature-Girl and her friends want to try and fix the problem themselves instead of asking the teachers to help so things go a bit wrong.
I came up with ideas as we went.
My mummy edited my book first, then it went to the editors with Siren Stories.
Make sure that you have ideas in your head instead of writing nonsense.
I want to write a book called The Phantom Dragon.
Yes it was worth the effort because I love the book and I was able to bring it into school and everybody could see it and I am very happy that it’s in the world.
Book on Siren Stories: https://sirenstories.co.uk/books/#!/products/paperback—nature-girl-vs-worst-nightmare—jj-barnes
Ebook on Siren Stories: https://sirenstories.co.uk/books/#!/products/nature-girl-vs-worst-nightmare—rose-mckinney-and-jj-barnes—ebook
Book on Amazon: mybook.to/NatureGirl
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