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20 Best Children's Book Short Story Ideas
Showing 20 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You've just lost something important. Write a story about finding it — or learning to cope with its loss.
It's your first winter… and it's just started snowing!
A child finds out by accident that Santa Claus… isn't real! Write about the fallout that occurs afterward.
Write a story that inverts the trope of the Chosen One.
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