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Author: Karley M. Conklin
Comp Titles: Where to Find Books Like Yours
Comp titles are an opportunity to highlight the best elements of our stories. But where do we find titles that will pack a punch?
Barking with The Big Dogs: Hope and Honesty for Children by Karley Conklin
"It is necessary to be hopeful to write successfully for children, yes, because children themselves are generically hopeful, but the quality of hopefulness is not an immature quality." -Natalie Babbitt ( pp 42) Natalie Babbitt's book Barking with the Big Dogs is a collection of her essays and speeches written over several years. In all the…
Picture-Driven Stories: Learning to Think in Pictures
"A picture book illustrator needs to tell a story with pictures. A picture book author needs to show the same story with words." -Jean Matthew Hall When I attended last year's Write2Ignite conference, I went to Jean Matthew Hall's discussion, What is a Picture Book. One of her main points was that a true picture book tells the…