I Have Been Asked

Here is an interesting conundrum; my granddaughter Madison (my Miss Magoo and muse for portrait photography) has asked me to write a children's book. Needless to say, I asked, "Are you serious?"

Her response, "Yes! You tell such wonderful stories, Papa."

How does one not fulfill a request such as that? So the first question I asked myself was of course, how does a mystery author write a children's book. I say to myself, aren't they full of fairies, wizards, princesses, princes, and those sorts of things? Now here is the conundrum, I write about the cruelty of man. I write about blood, gore, and numerous varied ways one person can kill another person. In other words, I let my mind run amuck in the bowels of society to come up with pretty sick and depraved characters. How does that equate to writing a children's book?

I let that sit in my barrel of ideas and let it ferment for the past week and a half. I have let it cure and mature. Then my muse came to me during my sleeping hours one night and gave me a clue. She didn't give me the whole scenario. She didn't even give me a prompt line to start with. She gave a hint, a small idea, like I said a clue.

I am going to try to write a book about Magdalena (or Maggy for short) the girl detective. I will leave out the blood, the gore and full description about how someone is murdered. I may make it about house break-ins, or a thief at school, or daring jewel thief. I will base the main character after my granddaughter, who is very athletic, smart, and has nerves of steel. Of course she is going to have hair that glows like copper in the sunlight just like Miss Magoo's does and have eyes the color of Tiger Eye gemstones, the same as Miss Magoo.

Please respond:
I would like to know if something like this would work? If you think this would work, then give me a word, a phrase or a sentence as a prompt. I will choose the prompt that causes me to blurt out, "Oh Yeah! That's it!"