Recommended by writing instructors and award-winning authors.

This volume emphasizes an aspect of children's picture books that has not yet been thoroughly investigated: structure.

Both concept books and picture storybooks employ very distinctive structures that, once mastered, can be applied to any picture book you wish to write.

When so many of the best picture books employ the same structures, it is important to analyze these structures, understand why they work, and learn how to incorporate them into your own writing. This volume helps you do all...

Recommended by writing instructors and award-winning authors.

Whereas Volume I of this series investigates the overall structure of children's picture storybooks at the macro level, this volume, Volume II, investigates the very building blocks of picture storybooks at the micro level: the word, the sentence, the scene and the story.

We look at the importance of word choice for giving the story meaning and cohesion.

We look at ways to change sentence structure to emphasize the information that is important, and to ensure that sentences flow easily from...

At last A journal and workbook specifically for grownups who write children's books.

Since most children's writers say they want to write picture books, this journal and workbook is written with you in mind. Writers for older age groups will also benefit.

This journal and workbook guides you through the entire process, from brainstorming ideas to character profiles and planning your story before you write it.

To help you come up with story ideas, this book provides writing prompts in both words and pictures.

There's plenty of room for you to jot...

• The poems have been revised for today's taste and sensibilities
• A number of birds have been replaced
• And all-new illustrations have been specially crafted in full color for this edition.

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