Short and Easy, Right? How Hard Can It be to Write a Picture Book?April 25, 2019 | For Beginners, Picture BooksHow hard can writing a picture book be? Anyone can write a picture book (PB). They're under 500 words, how hard ...By: Darcy PattisonLeslie Helakoski
Picture book? Early Reader? Chapter Book? Where Does Your Story Fit?April 23, 2019 | Early Readers and Chapter Books, Picture BooksTo market your story to agents and publishers, you must know where it fits in the marketplace. You’ve created a ...By: Laurie Calkhoven
Picture Book Word Count, and Other Rules that are Meant to Be BrokenApril 8, 2019 | Nonfiction, Picture Books, Top PostsA 32-Page Picture Book for Pre-Teens? I’m currently on a book tour for my new 32-page picture book—the type of ...By: Miranda Paul
How to Craft a Picture Book DummyFebruary 28, 2019 | Illustration, Picture Books, Top PostsWhat is a picture book? Traditionally 32 pages long and 500-1000 words long, a picture book is a three-dimensional ...By: Lisa Cinelli
True Storytelling: Writing Picture Book Biographies and Narrative NonfictionAugust 6, 2018 | Nonfiction, Picture BooksTod Olson and Leda Schubert in Conversation Enjoy this dialogue between a picture book author (Leda Schubert, ...
3 Tips for Writing Funny Picture BooksJuly 31, 2018 | Picture BooksHere are my three tips for writing funny picture books: Tip #1: Give your characters ridiculous names. You may not ...By: Emily Jenkins
Top 10 Reasons You Need to Revise Your ManuscriptJune 13, 2018 | Nonfiction, Novels, Picture Books, RevisionWhy revise your manuscript? Good writers get their manuscript right the first time, don't they? Not in our ...By: Eileen RobinsonHarold Underdown
Tools and Tips on Character RevisionMay 7, 2018 | Novels, Picture Books, RevisionEditors Harold Underdown and Eileen Robinson are the faculty hosts for our Revision Retreat. Here they share some ...By: Harold UnderdownEileen Robinson
Those Pesky Specs! Writing for the Educational MarketMarch 31, 2018 | Educational Market, Nonfiction, Picture Books, PoetryWhen you write for a trade publisher, you follow that publisher’s guidelines. Usually these are fairly ...By: Paula Morrow
Get to Know Your Picture Book Before You Start RevisingMarch 20, 2018 | Picture BooksYou’ve written the first draft of your picture book story. Congrats! Just getting the bare bones down is an ...By: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
How Do You Know If You’ve Written a Picture Book?March 8, 2018 | Picture BooksSo you have an idea for a children’s story. Great! Many times, our thoughts rush to PICTURE BOOK. Picture books ...By: Darcy PattisonLeslie Helakoski
Denise Fleming, Artist and MentorAugust 23, 2017 | Community Good News, Picture BooksWe are lucky enough to have Denise Fleming visiting us for a third time in 2017: she'll be here in October as our ...By: Denise Fleming