Reviews
Join the club. After reading and sharing many picture books with children we've all thought that we could write one. You only need to try to realize how difficult this is.
Stinson, one of Canada's first picture book writers, has combined her expertise and experience to give beginning or advanced writers some excellent information.
There are questions every novice writer of picture books wants to ask, and as any picture book editor eyeing the slush pile will tell you, needs to ask before sending a manuscript to a publisher. Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn't manages to survey the fundamentals of picture book writing - finding a story to tell, grappling with problems of genre, plot, pacing, theme and illustration and connecting with editors, publishers, and other writers - by asking and answering questions as if the reader were part of a cozy tutorial.
Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn't begins, "So you want to write a picture book?" Kathy Stinson, author of several picture-books, outlines in a zippy question-and-answer method how to go about doing just that: writing a picture-book. She states, 'There is probably no other single thing you can do to help you learn to write well than reading good writing in the area in which you are interested."