![]() ![]() In such a book the character will make an off-handed reference or two to cosigns and that’ll be the end of it. They may be a “genius” that needs to learn how to make a friend or two. Their love of math is certainly frowned upon, if not outright abhorred. You’ll see this person show up in a wide range of novels for kids. However, there is one type of character that can’t disappear soon enough for me: The genius math weirdo. A well-honed trope provides a kind of direct path for the reader to the plot. We see these kinds of things crop up again and again in our children’s literature, and that’s fine. ![]() There’s the negligent parent trope and the wise grandparent. It’s much easier to conjure up clever wordplay for young readers when you’ve a stable of tried and true characterizations to pull from. It’s why countless writers, every single year, rely on the tried and true method of literary tropes. Writing for children is hard and that’s a fact. Yellow Jacket (an imprint of Little Bee Books) ![]()
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