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March 17, 2010
 

Picture Book Plots, step-by-step: Ellen Jackson

The first thing you want to know about any story is "What’s it about?" The unfolding of events in the story, the plot, describes how one thing leads to another and how everything is resolved in the end. The plot tells how your characters move through time and space and what happens to each of them. To write for kids, you must know how to devise a strong, workable plot.
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March 5, 2010
 

Mem Fox » 20 Do’s and 20 Don’ts of Picture Books

Here are twenty DOs and twenty DON’Ts for writers of picture books, to make sure nothing vitally important has been left out from the previous information!:

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20 Do's and Don'ts from Mem Fox about writing picture books:
http://www.memfox.com/20-dos-and-20-donts.html

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March 5, 2010
 

Woven With Pixie Dust...: If You Wanna Be a Picture Book writer...

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Tips on how to write humorous picture books from Pam Calvert:
http://wwwpamcalvert.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-you-wanna-be-picture-book-writer...

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February 16, 2010
 

Mem Fox » So you want to write a picture book…

Books for young children are usually short. Young children themselves are usually short. This leads to an assumption that children have small brains and that writing for them is easy. The reverse it true. Young children have large, active brains, and writing for them is enormously difficult. It is even more difficult than writing for adults since only the best is good enough for children—the best words in the best places, and the best characters in the best stories. Where do we begin?
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Some great tips by Mem Fox.
http://www.memfox.com/so-you-want-to-write-a-picture-book.html

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January 15, 2010
 

Backspace Homepage - If It's Short, It Must Be a Picture Book By Jan Fields

The key to deciding if a story is suitable for a magazine or picture book isn't quality -- many children's magazines stories are excellent. The key is understanding that picture books and magazines stories are not the same kind of writing. To finding out if your story is a picture book or a magazine story, you'll need to ask yourself a few questions.

For the full article by Jan Fields, see:
http://www.bksp.org/content/view/65/1/

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