Writing picture books

Instructions on how to mock up a picture book from your manuscript and how to use the mock-up or dummy to revise your picture book text. Create a picture book dummy and use it to polish the story as you edit and revise.

How to write a children's book— everything you need to know! How to Write a Children's Book That Rocks! Thinking of writing a children's storybook? As an independent publisher, I often get calls from men and women who have either written a kids' story or have one in mind they want to write. This article

If you are writing a book for children, you probably have questions. In this post, we've shared cheat sheets for writing children's books.

Ann Whitford Paul explains the five fundamental elements you should know inside and out about your picture-book characters.

How To Write A Children's Picture Book is an impressive trilogy of instructional books by children's author and illustrator Eve Heidi Bine-Stock that provides other aspiring children's authors with sound, practical, time-tested advice on constructing a picture book story for children that will hold their interest from beginning to end. Volume 1 is devoted to the structure of writing and draws examples from a series of popular and successful children's books that include 'The Very Hungry…

Looking for a guide on how to write a children's book for beginners? Check out our ultimate resource on writing children's stories.

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Inside: You can publish a children's book. You can do it this year! Let's get started with three different paths forward. Shortly after publishing Belinda Baloney Changes Her Mind I started getting messages that were worded much more eloquently but essentially boiled down to this: But, like, how? It's a great question! And a question

Dr. Seuss is one of the most inspirational writers the world has ever known. Check out some of these tips we can learn from him!