A site featuring stories & poems by 10-17 year olds
When Alex and Becky Varley-Winter turned 16, they were no longer able to
contribute reviews to cool-reads (where the age range is 10-15). This was
seriously bad news for the cool-reads site as Alex and Becky are some of the
best reviewers the site has ever had. They both write brilliant stories so we
came up with the idea of extending cool-reads with a story & poem site that
Alex and Becky could manage through a web interface.
To make this possible, Chris - who built the cool-reads site - has
been working away for months and months on new version of the site, which will
run on a much better and faster database system, where all the elements of the
site will be all linked up and which basically will have loads of brilliant
features. His work is being hampered by a) some cyberspace gremlins that
persist in making some elements refuse to work properly and b) by teachers who
don't realise that coursework gets in the way of the really important business
of website development (if anyone reading this happens to be a
programmer who good at SQL based systems and who might have time to give Chris
a hand, please email him at
Chris@cool-reads.co.uk).
If you'd like to comment on the stories & poems idea, please contact
Alex and Becky becky@varleywinter.com
or alex@varleywinter.com. You
can also browse some of the stories and poems they've collected:.
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