Writing for children

An interesting look at how to write for children is featured on the following website: http://children.fictionfactor.com/.

One point they make that really hit home for me was to keep a name simple, not difficult to pronounce Don't confuse the reader, keep it simple and relect the culture your character comes from.
Memorable is good, but keep it down to one or two sylables so, though memorable, it is easy to say inthe reader's head or outloud.
I always struggled with long winded difficult names in books when I was a young reader, and frankly, as an adult, I don't need to read a name that goes beyond three sylables and is somehow lacking in vowels.

Keep it simple.

As in the book West of Noreaso, Ekim and Asil are brother and sister, each with a one sylable name, but memorable names that you don't have to fuss over while reading, a name that doesn't get in the way of the story.

PS. Ekim is Mike spelt backwards and Asil is Lisa...