Essential Elements of Writing a Successful Children’s Picture Book
Karen Ferreira
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In this session, you’ll discover:
Karen shares the indispensable first step authors should do before writing their book, how to improve their ideas, the key to a strong plot, why a character arc is crucial and how to achieve this, plus essential writing craft and revision strategies.
Session Links:
– GetYourBookIllustrations.com
Bonus:
– Masterclass: Get Stunning Book Illustrations That Tell Your Story For Less
Comment Below With Your Key Takeaways Or If You Have Questions About The Session.
38 responses
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Children’s books shape, teach, and entertain children. Liked learning about 32 pages and 54 pages for printing reasons.
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Great, Linda! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Just to clarify, it’s 32, or as few pages as 24. So not 54. 🙂
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Thank you for the many and useful information! It was clear, punctual, and packed in a relatively short amount of time. I was fascinated by the 32-page layout explanation. And I will definitely check the video you generously made available for us.
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I have just downloaded the link to the Masterclass. Thank you very much! I have also downloaded ‘The 8 Steps from Dream to Published Blueprint’ and I cannot wait to read it and all the other materials generously provided by the other speakers.
I also want to use this opportunity to say THANK YOU for organizing and hosting this children’s book authors summit. It’s a great event!
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Thank you Karen for your terrific session and another wonderful Summit. I loved all the information you gave. You make everything very clear and easy to understand. I especially appreciated your explanation of the age of the characters being a bit older than the readers. Also emphasizing that the beginning and end of a story should be quick and the building action and climax are the bulk of the story.
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Great ideas, The same curve is used for my other books. Tends to be universal, I guess. I like the idea that the character or child in the story needs to be the one to find the answer to his/her own problem, not an adult. I was told by one critique partner that my ending was preachy. However, there are no adults in the book at all and after much tension and their solving of the tension, the 2 little girls come to their own conclusion. So I’m not sure how or if I need to change that. Last page says this:
Sydney Joy and Madelynn Blair
Conquered their worries with love and care.
They learned that courage comes from within,
And facing your fears is how you win.Maybe it does sound preachy. Perhaps I need to have one of the girls say this to the other one in child-type verbiage. Just pondering this now. I paid a professional rhyming children’s book editor to look at it and she didn’t mention that. Thoughts?
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Hi Judy, good question! I’d say it is too obvious. It doesn’t necessarily sound preachy, but spelling the message out like this is also not the best. Yes, if you can make it into dialogue, but I’d say less spelled out too, that’d be great. Think what a child might really say, and showing, not telling. Hope that helps!
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Karen this was a great review for me as I’ve written 3 books. I love to hear things I already know because then it’s sinking in and yes I’ve learned it! And I still takes notes because learning is ongoing. I just signed up for your freebie video and will enjoy later. Thank you, for this summit.
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I agree with you about creating a high quality book. This session was full of great information about picture books and how to develop one. Excellent!
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Thank you Karen for sharing all of your wisdom. It helps to set in stone the process of writing a children’s picture book.
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Thank you, Karen, for sharing so much valuable information in this great presentation. You make it so clear and concise. I’m constantly learning to help grow my craft at writing and illustrating. I’m looking forward to watching the illustration video.
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This was a very informative session. Thank you for your diligence preparing this presentation.
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Thank you Karen for sharing such valuable information. I like the slides and I liked knowing how to remember the word count by age. This was a great presentation! Loved this session!
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Very helpful presentation. Thank you for this and for all of the presentations in the seminar.
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