To produce a story based on our own experiences when we spent a day walking through Ilkley Moor, which turned out to become very eventful. Potential elements of the story include:
- the stone steps
- the stone piles
- the sailor
- the figure in the woods
- the laughing birds
- the darkness falls
- the twinkling skyline
- the waterfall
- the stone circle
Through research into previous winners of this competition, as well as children's book illustrators such as Laura Carlin, it was felt that this story also needed to have some sort of underlying message or moral to the story which can be presented subtly through the illustrations and enhance the narrative. Something which children would have to engage with and pick up as they go through the story - this would be focused on Carlin's idea that children are smart so should not be patronised by avoiding certain, more difficult problems.
Characterisation:
It is important that children are able to relate to characters within a story, they must be believable as a real person. For this reason, our idea is to continue playing on our own personal experiences of our time on the moors, reflecting real people we met on our exploration, making only small changes to their character and name, and more importantly focusing on their real personalities to hopefully make them believable as real people.
- Louie
- Mabel
- Heather
- The Sailor
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