Jane Yolen – Emma Walton Hamilton

Mar 31, 2011

And so we come to the last of my series of posts based on Jane Yolen’s list of “10 Words Every Picture Book Author Must Know.” Resolution...

Mar 14, 2011

Picture books tells their stories in two ways: 1) via text, and 2) via illustrations (hence the name “picture book.”) Occasionally a story...

Mar 05, 2011

Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. - William Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” Act 2, Scene 2 And so we come...

Feb 28, 2011

No, I’m not talking about pirate captains, or fishing. But I am talking about capturing something – and that is the interest...

Feb 21, 2011

When Jane Yolen speaks of ‘focus’ with respect to writing picture books, she specifies that it should be sharp and small. There’s an...

Feb 18, 2011

The third word in Jane Yolen's list of "Ten Words Every Picture Book Author Should Know" is Child-Centeredness. I've written about this...

Feb 13, 2011

The second word in Jane Yolen’s list of ‘ten words every picture book author must know’ is Compression. It’s a good word,...

Feb 08, 2011

Last week at the SCBWI Winter Conference, the award-winning author Jane Yolen talked about ten words that every picture book author should...

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