Hello, Picture Book Builders! I’m so excited to have the wonderful Carmela LaVigna Coyle on the blog today! Carmela’s most recent book is titled, Anyone Else Awake? A Dawn Chorus, which is a fun and clever introduction to birds and their songs. According to the publisher, “This lyrical book about …
The Sweater, A Story of Community, written by Larissa Theule and gloriously illustrated by Teagan White, launches into our world with impeccable timing. Heading out for her hike, Holly notices a small bird and, “It was plain to see he’d been through some things.” The little bird desperately needs to …
A lot of beginning picture book authors write stories told from the view of an inanimate object. A toaster named Timmy. A chair named Charlie. A flower named Flora. While these authors’ intentions are good, their stories often aren’t. It is exceedingly hard to write a story that works using …