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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13th October 2020

I’ve submitted to agents in my genre (techno-thriller), cold-mailed manuscripts to publishers, leaned on friends with connections in publishing,...

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13th October 2020
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24th January 2021

The term ‘reluctant readers’ is used for ease, although they are not always reluctant per se: some children have conditions that make the act of...

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13th October 2020
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24th January 2021

Most characters do not appear in your head fully formed; they develop gradually in much the same way as we get to know a new acquaintance....

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13th October 2020
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14th August 2024
In an exclusive extract from the new edition of the Guide to Writing for Children & YA, author Linda Strachan looks at the importance of not...