Question re: middle grade

[RK Capps]

Can you name an omniscient MG? I'm not recalling any.

 

[Leonora]

A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Skylark War.

If these are MG! Bit hazy on the categories.

 

[Taylor W. S.]

Call me stupid but what is an omniscient MG?

 

[RK Capps]

@Taylor W. S., @Leonora just mentioned omniscient books she thought may be Middle Grade.

 

[Leonora]

Call me stupid but what is an omniscient MG?

A narrator who is independent of the characters, can enter into different characters' thoughts, and who can sometimes be a character in themselves, offering opinions. They know everything, but don't necessarily tell us everything!

 

[Taylor W. S.]

Go to the forum you want to post in. Orange button top right 'post thread'.

Merci, mon Ami.

 

[Taylor W. S.]

A narrator who is independent of the characters can enter into different characters' thoughts, and who can sometimes be a character in themselves, offering opinions. They know everything, but don't necessarily tell us everything!

Too complicated for my feeble brain (sigh).

 

[Taylor W. S.]

@Taylor W. S., @Leonora just mentioned omniscient books she thought maybe Middle Grade.

I having a brain seizure.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sometimes called The God view, because you, the writer, are letting the reader see and know everything as if they, like you, are looking down from above. Basically, you're writing in the third person, using he, she, it and they, and you're using exposition, moving from scene to scene, place to place, person to person.

@RK Capps Most MG of the 20th Century. Though they didn't call it Middle Grade then, just children's fiction plus suggested age group. The Secret Garden, The Midnight Folk, Carrie's War, A Little Princess.