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Workshop
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Date: May 3
– May 6, 2007
Arrive Thursday, May 3, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, May 6, after lunch.
Designed For: Writers with a strong
interest in publishing a picture book.
Workshop Tuition: $895
Maximum Capacity: 12 participants
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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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Workshop
Leader |
Juanita Havill
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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.
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Guest
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Susan Pearson |
Susan Pearson
Susan
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 is currently editor at
large at Chronicle Books. Over the years she has worked with
hundreds of picture-book creators.
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, was published by Marshall Cavendish. |
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