Darcy Pattison – INTRODUCTORY COURSE – How To Write a Children’s Picture Book
The Picture Book of Your Dreams – with these 4 videos.
Kids and books—they just go together. Children’s picture books are an addictive passion! You love reading to kids and wish that you could read one of your own. Now, you can make that dream a reality with this video course.
Writing illustrated picture books for children can seem deceptively simple. You must tell a complete story in less than 1000 words, and less than 350 words is best. Characters grow and change and keep the reader emotionally invested, while also giving the illustrator great possibilities for the art. It’s a balancing act all the way around.
Writing teacher and author of over a dozen children’s books Darcy Pattison explains the craft of writing children’s picture books. You’ll learn:
Learn the basics of writing for children
Learn how to include interesting possibilities for the artist
Gain confidence in your writing
If you like detailed writing guides, plenty of contemporary examples, and practical worksheets, then you’ll love Darcy Pattison’s guidance on creating your own masterpiece that will fascinate generations of young readers.
This video course includes 4 introductory video lessons. There are easy-to-follow slides that you can and stop as you need. The course is open 24-7, so it fits your time schedule and life style.
Who should take this course?
This video course is perfect for beginners or intermediate picture book writers. We’ll cover the basics which will get you ed on the path to publication.
OPTIONAL: After the introductory course, we provide a full 32-video course, HOW TO WRITE A CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK. This introductory course includes selected videos from that course. This is a NO-RISK INTRODUCTION to the full course; the $29 will be credited to the price of the full course.
What will you learn?
The basic structure of picture books
How to write a complete story in less than 500 words
How to develop a character that children will love
How to include interesting possibilities for the artist
17 Picture book topics to AVOID
You’ll be challenged to read picture books published within the last 5 years so you develop a stronger sense of the market. Writing tasks take you from planning a story to editing it to the tight format required. You’ll be confident that you can write a children’s picture book of your own.
You’re thinking, “Picture books are so short. Anyone could do that!”
I disagree. Writing short is hard! Picture books demand a full story in less than 500 words. That’s only two typed-double spaced pages. My easy introduction to the writing section makes it easier than it should be!
Your Instructor
Darcy Pattison
Storyteller, writing teacher, Queen of Revisions, and founder of Mims House (mimshouse.com) publisher, Darcy Pattison has been published in nine languages. Her books, published with Harcourt, Philomel/Penguin, Harpercollins, Arbordale, and Mims House have received recognition for excellence with starred reviews in Kirkus, BCCB and PW. Three nonfiction nature books have been honored as National Science Teacher’s Association Outstanding Science Trade books. The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake News Story was named a Junior Library Guild selection for December, 2017. The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt) received an Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature Honor Book award, and has been published in a Houghton Mifflin textbook. She’s the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor’s Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children’s literature.
Writing teacher and award-winning children’s book author Darcy Pattison speaks frequently for schools, conferences, and professional development workshops.
Course Curriculum
Introduction: Write a Children’s Picture Book
A Look Around the Course – What to Expect (1:37)
Picture Book Basics
PIcture Books are (almost) Always 32 Pages. Here’s Why. (6:57)
Picture Book Genres
12-How to Write an ABC Picture Book (4:54)
Write a Picture Book
22-Basic Writing (14:23)
17 Picture Book Topics to Avoid
25-17 Picture Book Topics to Avoid (9:33)
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