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 […]

Here are twenty DO’s and twenty DO NOT’s for writers of picture books, to make sure nothing vitally important has been left out:

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 to copy the […]

Books for young children are usually short. Young children themselves are usually short. This leads to an assumption that children have small brains and that writing for them is easy. The reverse is true. Young children have large, active brains, and writing for them is enormously difficult. It is even […]