Writing Children's Books For Dummies. Peter Economy

      1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Example board books.FIGURE 2-2: Example picture books.FIGURE 2-3: Quick as a Cricket, a picture book. FIGURE 2-4: Example picture books. FIGURE 2-5: Example picture books.FIGURE 2-6: Example color and activity books. FIGURE 2-7: Example novelty books.FIGURE 2-8: Jeremy Kreep: Fang Fairy, a graphic novel. FIGURE 2-9: We Read Phonics, an early reader series. FIGURE 2-10: Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth, Book 1, a first chapter book. FIGURE 2-11: Example middle-grade novels. FIGURE 2-12: The Dressmaker’s Daughter, a young adult book.

      2 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry & the Big Hungry Bear,...FIGURE 3-2: Find action and adventure in The Revenge of Joe Wild. FIGURE 3-3: Example true stories.FIGURE 3-4: Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield, an example of historical f...FIGURE 3-5: The Einsteins of Vista Point, a recent addition to the mystery genr...FIGURE 3-6: Example biographies.FIGURE 3-7: The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets. FIGURE 3-8: One True Way, from the LGBTQIA genre. FIGURE 3-9: Mean Ghouls: A Rotten Apple Book, a example gender-oriented title. FIGURE 3-10: Friendship titles for young children.FIGURE 3-11: Ventura and Zelzah, a YA friendship title. FIGURE 3-12: Wishes, Dares, & How to Stand Up to a Bully. FIGURE 3-13: Example titles celebrating developmental milestones.FIGURE 3-14: Example prose poetry titles, including a look inside.FIGURE 3-15: How to Change the World in 12 Easy Steps. FIGURE 3-16: Example nonfiction educational books.FIGURE 3-17: The We Both Read series. FIGURE 3-18: When Pencil Met the Markers, an aspirational story. FIGURE 3-19: No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights i...FIGURE 3-20: Dealing with diversity.FIGURE 3-21: Example titles addressing family issues.FIGURE 3-22: Memoirs of a Tortoise. FIGURE 3-23: A picture book about acceptance and stereotyping. FIGURE 3-24: YA novels in the addiction, abuse, and mental illness genre.FIGURE 3-25: A couple of especially funny boardbooks.

      3 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: You can replace points in Cinderella’s story with ones in your own ...

      4 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: A sample first page of a manuscript submission.

      5 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Sketch from It’s a Big World, Little Pig. FIGURE 15-2: Background finished pencil from It’s a Big World, Little Pig....FIGURE 15-3: Foreground finished pencil from It’s a Big World, Little Pig....FIGURE 15-4: Cover art prior to design from It’s a Big World, Little Pig.FIGURE 15-5: Final cover of It’s a Big World, Little Pig. FIGURE 15-6: A computer-generated sketch for interior artwork for We’re All in ...FIGURE 15-7: A sketch that has been digitally converted to a pencil. FIGURE 15-8: Computer-generated color artwork. FIGURE 15-9: The final cover art with (a) color and (b) hand-drawn text for We’...

      6 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: A sample query letter.

      7 Chapter 20FIGURE 20-1: A sample press release for a children’s book.

      Guide

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      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4 Table of Contents

      5  Begin Reading

      6  Index

      7  About the Authors

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