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Literary Reflections: Writing Prompts
Writing Prompt: Living With Captain Underpants
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Karna Converse is a freelance writer who's written everything from technical documentation and price proposals to newsletter articles, devotionals, personal profiles and essays. Her essays have been published in a variety of regional and national publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Magazine, the Cup of Comfort and Chicken Soup anthologies, Our Iowa, and on Iowa Public Radio. She lives in Storm Lake, Iowa with her husband and their three children.




In addition to the Contributions listed below, Karna posts a weekly writing prompt to Literary Mama's blog. Type "For Your Journal" in our Search box for a complete list.

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Writing Prompt: Living With Captain Underpants
By Karna Converse
April 30, 2011

Each month, we post a writing prompt tied to the current month's essay. Please email your responses of 500 words or less to lmreflections (at) literarymama (dot) com with the words "writing prompt" in the subject line so that we know it's not an essay submission. Submissions should be in the text of an email (please do not send attachments). We will accept responses until the 15th of each month and offer our feedback on each response privately before the end of the month. We hope you'll take this opportunity to get inspired, share your work, and find community with other writers! We'll post our favorites on our blog.

In this month's essay, Lisa Harper reflects on her five-year-old son's love of books and the impact a certain superhero has made. "There is more to books for young readers than letter-learning, things more important than decoding phonics," she writes. "There are things sensed and things dreamt, things that vault him away from heaven and earth and into the strange whirling of his imagination. Already these things bring him a new version of the world."

Name your beginning reader's favorite book or book series. What is your child learning from it?



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