Tag: writing advice
Pick and commit: Choosing a picture book structure
20 True PBs + NF Creator Tips + HUGE Giveaway!
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Get Ready! There’s a LOT in this one little post.Whether you’re a book creator, teacher, librarian, or reader, you’ll find a gold mine of craft tips from authors and illustrators of inspiring 2020 nonfiction picture books who banded together to form a group called 20truePBs. Plus, we’re doing a huge …
How reading picture books will make you a better writer
Critiquers not Critics: Insights On Writing Groups
Sculpting a Picture Book (& A Double Giveaway!)
DAD AND THE DINOSAUR dazzles — for readers and writers
Create Your Own Genius Hour
Twenty Year Anniversary (and Book Giveaway!)
Engagement in One Sentence
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It’s killing me, it’s genius…Patricia MacLachlan wrote a perfect nonfiction picture book using only one sentence. Well, technically there’s two question marks, but still…The Iridescence of Birds is a biography of Henri Matisse that manages to convey most of his childhood environment, his relationship with his mother, his interests, his personality …