Writing lessons from Moses, the boy who hated authority
Some of the titles in the famous Moses series by Barbara Kimenye. Photo/Phoebe Okall
In his evergreen book, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain tells the story of a young ragamuffin and his going down the Mississipi with the runaway slave Jim, showing the adult world of the 19th Century American South and its bigotry and injustice through the eyes of a teenage boy, all in fantastic prose.
In Treasure Island, R.L Stephenson invented the swashbuckling tale of adventure that is the source of most popular perceptions of pirates, again through the eyes of a boy.
