Author Description

This volume demonstrates how to write and illustrate children's books by analyzing story structure and showing how the story's action is communicated through picture sequences. The author, a well-established children's author and illustrator, covers technical questions of how actually to proceed in developing ideas into books, as well as aesthetic and ethical issues. This book inspires readers to think beyond predictable formats and instead embrace the poetry of a good picture book. The author maintains that the magic of a good collaboration between text and art which is necessary whether working on a story book, a concept book, or a nonfiction book. He breaks the information into four sections: Telling the Story, Planning the Book, Creating the Pictures, and Preparing for Reproduction. There is also an appendix with advice on finding a publisher, a short bibliography, and a useful index.