Great Expectations
Pippa Park Writing Prompts to Create Your Own Retelling
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In Pippa Park Raises Her Game, Erin Yun reimagines Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations to create her own unique story. You can use her approach as inspiration to begin your own retelling!
Reimagining Great Expectations into a Middle-Grade Novel
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For my debut novel, Pippa Park Raises Her Game, I followed a pretty unconventional path. Instead of writing my book and then querying literary agents, Fabled Films Press put out a call for submissions for stories inspired by Great Expectations as part of a broader initiative to reimagine classic literature from different perspectives. Immediately, ideas churned in my mind, and I thought about almost nothing but how to update the iconic Dickens novel into a modern middle-grade book.
Learn How To Create Your Own Retelling!
The Summer 2020 Reading Theme is ”Imagine Your Story”, which celebrates mythology, fairy tales, and folktales and encourages young readers to create their own stories.