In a systematic way, I am researching the wrting and illustrating career of Tomie dePaola. When I started this project, I was simply trying to think of a way to honor dePaola on his birthday–September 15. The prolific picture book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola was born on September 15, 1934. After I began my…
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How to Create a Text Dummy for a Picture Book – A Look at the Structures of Several Picture Books
Are you trying to write your first picture book? It might be helpful if, very early in the process, you break your text into pages. Typically, there are 32 pages in a picture book, but the text of the book rarely begins on page one. Because the title page, endpapers, the dedication & the copyright…
How Many Pages in a Picture Book? Which Page is Page One?
While most picture books have 32 pages, that is not an absolute rule. In this post, I’ll show you several picture books, and I’l show you that page one of a picture book really isn’t page one. I’ll begin with my own picture book The Donkey’s Song. The Donkey’s Song Jacki Kellum Illustrated by Sydney…
After the Fall by Dan Santat – Picture Book Daily
After the Fall Dan Santat 2017 Roaring Brook Press Caldecott Honor Book Rated as One of the Best Picture Books of 2017 by School Library Journal 357 Words 36 Pages The text of this book begins on page 5. Pages 4 and 5 are a 2-page spread, with the first text page beginning on page…