How to Craft a Picture Book DummyFebruary 28, 2019 | Illustration, Picture BooksWhat is a picture book? Traditionally 32 pages long, a picture book is a three-dimensional object meant to be ...By: Lisa Cinelli
Launching Our 2019 Visual Arts Exhibit with Angela DominguezJanuary 24, 2019 | Art Wall, Campus Happenings, Latinx Voices, Picture BooksWe are very excited to announce that author/illustrator Angela Dominguez will be the featured artist for our 2019 ...By: Angela Dominguez
True Storytelling: Writing Picture Book Biographies and Narrative NonfictionAugust 6, 2018 | Nonfiction, Picture BooksTod Olson and Leda Schubert in Conversation Enjoy this dialogue between a picture book author (Leda Schubert, ...
3 Tips for Writing Funny Picture BooksJuly 31, 2018 | Picture BooksHere are my three tips for writing funny picture books: Tip #1: Give your characters ridiculous names. You may not ...By: Emily Jenkins
Top 10 Reasons You Need to Revise Your ManuscriptJune 13, 2018 | Nonfiction, Novels, Picture BooksWhy revise your manuscript? Good writers get their manuscript right the first time, don't they? Not in our ...By: Eileen RobinsonHarold Underdown
Tools and Tips on Character RevisionMay 7, 2018 | Novels, Picture BooksEditors Harold Underdown and Eileen Robinson are the faculty hosts for our Revision Retreat. Here they share some ...By: Harold UnderdownEileen Robinson
Those Pesky Specs! Writing for the Educational MarketMarch 31, 2018 | Educational Market, Nonfiction, Picture Books, PoetryWhen you write for a trade publisher, you follow that publisher’s guidelines. Usually these are fairly ...By: Paula Morrow
Get to Know Your Picture Book Before You Start RevisingMarch 20, 2018 | Picture BooksYou’ve written the first draft of your picture book story. Congrats! Just getting the bare bones down is an ...By: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
How Do You Know If You’ve Written a Picture Book?March 8, 2018 | Picture BooksSo you have an idea for a children’s story. Great! Many times, our thoughts rush to PICTURE BOOK. Picture books ...By: Darcy PattisonLeslie Helakoski
Denise Fleming, Artist and MentorAugust 23, 2017 | Community Good News, Picture BooksWe are lucky enough to have Denise Fleming visiting us for a third time in 2017: she'll be here in October as our ...By: Denise Fleming
7 Ways to Create Characters with CharismaAugust 21, 2017 | Novels, Picture BooksSince I taught at the workshop Getting Your Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel Unstuck, I’ve been thinking about ...By: Elise Broach
Listening to Your Manuscript Will Help With RevisionJune 16, 2017 | Novels, Picture BooksWe teach a variety of revision techniques at our Revision Retreat workshop--this is one of our favorites. One of ...By: Eileen RobinsonHarold Underdown