“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood” — Yvonne Blackwood Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“With each butterfly´s arrival, there´s a chance for me to be the adult incarnation of the little girl in the picture book… — Ronlyn Domingue Copy Share Image
“I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not… — Cornelia Maude Spelman Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“The promise of a reward can help encourage children to keep at a hard task. Offer something fun each time the child… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“With the rumble of the waterfall in the distance, I slipped into sleep and dreamed of a red-haired girl holding a posy… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
“There was a tiger in the circus too. Her name was Tiger Princess.. Her act in the circus would be to balance… — Desiree Milonas-King Copy Share Image
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!” — Tamar Bobokhidze Copy Share Image
“Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.” — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
“She would even ride a scooter. and toot its horn. Everyone knew when Liberty was on the stage.” — Desiree Milonas-King Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything!” — Tamar Bobokhidze Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern.… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books… — Laurie Keller Copy Share Image
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Understanding dog-psychology is simple and there are only a few essential (yet very simple) things that you need to understand – but… — Yohai Reuben Copy Share Image
“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
