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Date: April 28 - May 1, 2005
Begins Thursday, April 28, at 6 PM with dinner. Ends Sunday, May 1, after lunch.

Designed For: Writers with a strong interest in publishing a picture book.

Workshop Tuition: $895

Maximum Capacity: 12 participants

 
 

What's the secret to creating a good picture book? It's all about understanding the structure and creating the right story for this specialized medium. Join seasoned picture book author Juanita Havill for an in-depth look at

  • coming up with the right ideas;
  • using lively, stimulating language and pictures to involve readers;
  • knowing whether a story works as a picture book;
  • creating storyboards and page layouts to visualize your picture book; and
  • working with illustrators and art directors.
  
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Juanita Havill

 Juanita Havill
Juanita Havill is the author of sixteen children's books, including Jamaica's Find, a Reading Rainbow Review Book, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner; Jamaica Tag-Along, an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"; and Sato and the Elephants, an ALA Notable in the Field of Social Studies, which has been translated into five South African languages.

She is also the editor of Booklove: Creating Good Books for Children in an Age that Values Neither.

Susan Pearson		 GUEST FACULTY - Susan Pearson
Special guest faculty member Susan Pearson began her career in publishing in the early 1970s and has held positions as Editor-in-Chief of Carolrhoda Books, Editor-in-Chief of Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, and currently Editor-at-Large at Chronicle Books. Over the years she has worked with hundreds of picture books creators including Ted and Betsy Lewin, Emily Arnold McCully, Steven Kellogg, Leo and Diane Dillon, Jerry Pinkney, Laura Krauss Melmed, Jim LaMarche, Mark Buehner, Floyd Cooper, Alma Flor Ada, George Ancona, and Juanita Havill.

She is also the author of more than twenty books for children, and the anthologist of The Drowsy Hours: Poems For Bedtime (Harper 2002). The first collection of her own verse, Squeal And Squawk: Barnyard Talk, will be published in Spring 2004 by Marshall Cavendish.