Creative Writing
Children's Book Writing & Illustration Concepts
Write the Picture Book You Keep Meaning to Write
12 lessons4 modules9h 0m durationbeginner level
About this course
Children's publishing has hard, specific rules: a picture book runs 32 pages, lands under 500 words, and must leave room for an illustrator to do half the storytelling. This course teaches those rules and the craft underneath them, then walks you through building a 32-page dummy, polishing your manuscript, and submitting to agents and editors the way working authors do.
Curriculum
Module 1: How Children's Books Actually Work
- The Age Categories and Their Hard NumbersPreview
- What an Editor Looks For in the First Read🔒
- Reading Like a Writer: Mentor Texts🔒
Module 2: Crafting the Story
- Finding the Idea and the Child Protagonist🔒
- Structure, Page Turns, and the Rule of Three🔒
- Writing Tight: Under 500 Words🔒
Module 3: Words Meet Pictures: The Dummy
- The 32-Page Map and Pagination🔒
- Building the Dummy and Thumbnail Sketches🔒
- The Writer and Illustrator Relationship🔒
Module 4: Polish, Submit, and the Business
- Revision, Critique, and Read-Aloud Testing🔒
- Formatting and the Query Letter🔒
- Agents, Editors, and the Deal🔒
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