In the classroom, this could show students every person has different ideas when they write a story. The day he shares his story with the class, he realizes that his original story about the puppy was truly more important him and that was the story he should have shared with the other students in the first place. In effort to be more creative, he came up with a new idea to write his story and would perform it in front of the class to entertain them. While talking with other classmates about their ideas, he begins to believe that everyone seems to have an interesting story except for him. Immediately, Arthur went home and began writing about his puppy.

One day at class, Arthur’s teacher gave the entire class an assignment to write a story about something that was important to them. I would strongly recommend this book to children ages four and up since this book will greatly teach small children about how to write the perfect story for a class. “Arthur Writes a Story” is a creative and cute little story about the importance of being creative with a story that you are most comfortable writing about. Also, I like the way that Marc Brown makes Arthur look more human than before because now Arthur’s body strongly resembles a human body, but of course, he still has an aardvark head. Marc Brown’s illustrations are as creative as ever, especially of the images where Arthur’s imagination goes wild as he thinks of purple striped elephants and elephants floating around on the moon for his story. The lesson here is that children should try to pick a topic that they are most comfortable talking about and try to be creative with it, which is what Arthur does throughout the book.

I love the way that Arthur’s friends do try to help him out with his story since they inspired him to be more creative with his story. Marc Brown realistically brings out a child’s fear of being a failure in a class, as Arthur goes through the same trauma when he tries to think of everything that would make his story seem more exciting to the class, even if the story does not make any sense. Marc Brown has done it once again in detailing Arthur’s current predicament in writing the perfect story for his class. “Arthur Writes a Story” is certainly a book for children who also have problems with writing a good paper for class, and the book would help them learn about writing a story that makes them feel comfortable. From the mind of Marc Brown, Arthur has to write a good paper for his class, but he spends the majority of the book trying to figure out ways to make his story more interesting to hear about.

“Arthur Writes a Story” is somewhat apart of the “Pal the Puppy” trilogy as it deals with Arthur writing a story about how he got Pal from his pet business.

Arthur Writes a Story by Marc Brown