Drew Bigelow, a library aide at the Kings Park branch, recommends these picture books from the FCPL collection to support children learning to write and to demonstrate what children can do with this skill:

• A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen
• Still learning how to write, a boy creates a story through letters and squiggles.
• Phoebe Sounds It Out by Julie Zwillich
• Phoebe gets a start on writing by practicing her name through sounding it out, out loud.
• The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
• Jerome gathers words and learns how to use them in both quiet and powerful ways.
• The Little “Read” Hen by Diana de La Casas
• The process of writing a story takes the place of baking bread in this spin on The Little Red Hen.
• Little Red Writing by Joan Holub 
• A young pencil takes a perilous journey in writing a story for class.
• Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can Too!) by Sally Lloyd-Jones
• A girl ushers the reader through the creation of her very own book.