Writing for kids
Writing for children does impose certain limits, Bob admits. Unlike the real game there must be no swearing and no sex scandals. Otherwise, short ofcomplexfinancial matters, no subjects are taboo.
"Because you're dealing with an audience that is traditionally reluctant to read, you want them to feel that they must turn the page to find out what happens next. So the narrative has to run very fast. The books must also be acceptable for kids to be seen reading at school. I guess they derive from the older tradition of adventure stories we used to read all the time in magazines like Boy's Own and comics like Roy of the Rovers."
"This genre came to be dismissed as rather old-fashioned in the 1970s and 1980s. Even the notion of boys being competitive fell out of favouramongst educationalists. So perhaps the Strikers series is my way of returning to the sort of books I enjoyed reading when I was a child in the 1950s. And I suppose yes, the good guys in my stories do usually win."
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