Starting to create my narrative

In my final two units for level 5 I created my narratives loosely following Todorov's Narrative Theory. I found that this worked particularly well for me and I was pleased with my final narrative outcomes. I'm going to use the same basics when creating my new narrative for the Macmillan live brief i'm working on for PMP.

Todorov's theory is a simple one, it suggests that each narrative is made up in sections as shown in the image above. Although the order of these sometimes change the sections stay the same. Each narrative contains a state of equilibrium that is in someway disrupted and a character (or a few characters) usually the main character in the narrative has to attempt to restore the equilibrium or create a new state of equilibrium. 

Another thing I found that helped make my narrative stronger was to have some form of underlying message, moral or theme. It's important to not make this too obvious or 'preachy' but having the message gave my narrative an added layer of depth. My message in my first attempt at a children's picture book 'Lilly Gets Lost' was to do with helping and being kind to others means they will be kind to you in return. However for this new narrative I wanted to tackle something that affects children more often so I did some research into themes I could use ... http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Themes-for-Children's-Books I liked the idea of using the theme of change or moving home as this is something that can be scary for young children in my target age range.