I’ve never even tried to write a picture book for kids, but I’ve gotten questions about that writing specialty. This video, which is mostly audio, sounds to me as if it spells out exactly what a writer needs to consider when writing picture books.
The video is presented by something called the CBI Clubhouse. Billed as the ultimate learning & sharing spot for children’s writers, I suspect it’s an excellent resource for anyone who wants to know about writing books for children of any age. They charge almost $5 a month, so tread cautiously. Take the tour, poke around, it may be something you want to try.
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This has been really interesting and helpful. Thank you.
Some attribute it to Oscar Wilde. Hutchins apparently put it down in print in 1939. My cousins’ roomie knew him, and the quote seems consistent with the little I heard.
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The video is good, though it’s a lot more like a slide show than a video. Valid points, every one of them. Probably could save a novice a lot of time. But I wish novice writers felt the same way about writing children’s books that Robert Hutchins felt about exercise: “Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.”
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I though it was Phyllis Diller who said that 😉