Archive for June, 2005

So you want to write a picture book…

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Quick-and-snappy advice, in case you’re in a hurry…
Okay: so you’ve already written a picture book without reading the pages and pages of advice on my website. Tut, tut! May I kindly and warmly suggest that you do read the hints I’ve posted below, after this ‘quick-and-snappy’ section. I made many bungles in my attempts to […]

20 Do’s and 20 Don’ts

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Here are twenty DOs and twenty DON’Ts for writers of picture books, to make sure nothing vitally important has been left out from the previous information!:

DO read recent picture books over and over again.
DO make friends with a bookseller or librarian or stoyteller: their advice and guidance can be enormously helpful.
DO be original: try not […]

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Hello everyone!
It’s a freezing winter’s night in Adelaide, June 22nd 2005, and it’s rather late at night and I’m going to America again in the morning, early, but I didn’t want to leave before I said goodbye, as it were.
It’s been a frenetic month since I came back from my last trip to […]