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16th January 2025
Our online festival is back for 2025, and it's bigger than ever before!
The Children’s Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025 is a series...
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Picture Books (Children's)
You write and/or illustrate short books for 0-5 year-olds. These stories are led by illustrations and contain few words. Famous picture book authors include Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak and Julia Donaldson.
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14th October 2024
An interview with picture book writer Catherine Emmett. For more free articles on the writing, illustration and publishing process, visit www....
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29th October 2024
Picture book author Catherine Emmett on her love of the page turn, and how important they are within the picture book form. Fore more free advice on...
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13th January 2025
Our 2025 Yearbooks are here, and to mark the 118th edition of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the 21st anniversary edition of...
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17th July 2024
In this extract from her article for the Children’s Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2025, Camilla Chester explains how empathy is a significant tool...
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8th May 2024
I started writing Zeb, Jet and the Ice-Cream Calamity for two reasons. First, my deep love of stories, which started when my mother would sit us...