How to Write a Children’s Picture Book
How to Write a Children’s Picture Book
Learning from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Corduroy, Where the Wild Things Are, The Carrot Seed, Good Night, Gorilla, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, and Other Favorite Stories.
How to Write a Children’s Picture Book
Product Description
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 that. You will see that no matter how carefully you labor over the tone, word choice, plot, character, setting, theme and style of your picture book, you must have a thorough grasp of its structure if you wish your book to succeed. Indeed, you will find that an expert command of structure is the key to writing a successful children’s picture book.
How to Write a Children’s Picture Book: Learning from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Corduroy, Where the Wild Things Are, The Carrot Seed, Good Night, Gorilla, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, and Other Favorite Stories
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Comments
The book takes popular children’s book and breaks apart the beginning, middle and ending so that you get a very clear picture of how your story should progess. An excellent resource.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have at least a dozen books on writing for children and I especially like this one. Not only does it focus exclusively on picture books, which few others do, it provides solid, concrete information that you can apply directly to your own writing. Too many other books offer vague tips that may be helpful in polishing an existing manuscript, but don’t help with building your story from the ground up. I’ve been trying (sporadically) to sell picture book manuscripts for several years now, and I believe that what I’ve learned from this book will help get me closer to my goal of being a published author. Volumes II and III are on their way to me now and I can’t wait to see what they have to offer!
Rating: 5 / 5
As an author of many books for children, I found this book to be one of the most practical and helpful tools to format a picture book during the writing process. I’m already using the techniques to structure new projects to make my picture book manuscripts shine! I plan on recommending it to my critique group as well as buying copies as gifts for my writer friends.
Rating: 5 / 5
How To Write A Children’s Picture Book focuses especially upon structure as the key to creating a memorable and entertaining treasure for children to read, share, and learn from. Distinguishing between picturebooks and picture storybooks, and closely examining such enduring children’s classics as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and “Where The Wild Things Are”, How To Write A Children’s Picture Book is a highly useful and focused guide that dissects the nuts and bolts of writing with a keen eye toward higher achievement and quality. A “must-have” for any aspiring children’s picturebook writer.
Rating: 5 / 5
Eve Bine-Stock has written a completely useful book. She’s gone beyond all the ordinary advise found elsewhere and examined the actual structure of a picture story book. Her method of diagramming a story and reducing it to its essential elements will prove invaluable to those who craft tales for children. In years to come, many writers will be able to look back and attribute their success to the simple and effective methods she outlines here. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 / 5
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