I reject the notion that you can write anything for kids and call it a day without any real effort. Some of the best shows for kids are ones that stick with them as adults, even if they still aren’t stories for adults. Kids do not know anything about themes, or the “hero’s journey”, or context, but they understand a good story that interests them.
Author Mark Cecil, in an article for Lit Hub, goes over how telling stories to his kids was instructive in how he tells a story, even if he isn’t writing a story for kids. If you can grab a child’s attention, you’ve got a great story idea there.
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