Tag: picture books

  • Entertaining Parents

    Entertaining Parents

    While I am holding you captive.. how does a writer, decades past their first childhood, but at least five years from entering those golden years of our second childhood, entertain contemporary children and the adults who read to them?

  • Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book

    10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book A children’s picture book may seem simple, but creating a brilliant one is no easy task. How do you make yours smart, engaging, and fun — rather than clichéd, saccharine, and didactic? “A picture book is a marriage of words and pictures,” describes Santopolo. “The most…

  • 10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book

    Wednesday’s Topic continues our April Theme Children/YA Writing Month 10 Tips For Creating Your First Children’s Picture Book   A children’s picture book may seem simple, but creating a brilliant one is no easy task. How do you make yours smart, engaging, and fun — rather than clichéd, saccharine, and didactic? “A picture book is…