Collections of children's fictional narratives ('told' stories)

[Gordon Ingram]

Hi everyone,

Some colleagues and I are hoping to start a project in the nearish 
future which will involve the collection of children's original 
(fictional) narratives as part of the requirements-gathering process for 
a piece of software aimed at helping children improve their creative 
writing skills. I plan to share any resulting corpus with the scientific 
community.

Does anyone know of a collection of original fictional narratives - 
i.e., not 'retold' fairytales and the like - which is easily available 
on the internet, for us to do a pilot study on? I am vaguely aware of 
Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's 'frog stories', some of which I think are 
available in CHILDES, and will have a look at them; but ideally I would 
like something a bit more accessible (i.e. without all the linguistic 
annotation, as we will probably need to strip that out in order to have 
it analysed by AI) - and perhaps something written by kids rather than 
spoken.

Age range would be about 6-12 - though we could go older if necessary. 
Something on autistic children's production of fictional narratives 
would also be really useful; doesn't have to be a corpus in this case, 
even an article or two would help.

Best regards,
Gordon
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