Our final picture book giveaway of July starts NOW!
This week, our Book Bundle features picture books created by our very own Picture Book Summit Founders: Emma Walton Hamilton, Julie Hedlund, and Katie Davis!
Read below for a quick preview of each picture book and then enter to win at the bottom of this post.
Enter today!
Our third picture book giveaway starts NOW! This week, our Book Bundle features picture books created by bestselling, award-winning creative duo Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett!
Read on for a brief description of each book and then enter to win below. Don’t miss this giveaway!
Our second picture book giveaway begins TODAY! This week, we feature picture books written by the National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Meg Medina!
Read on for a brief description of each book and then enter to win below. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
This July, we are hosting not one, not two, but FOUR book giveaways! Each week, we’ll give away a book bundle featuring books by one of our Superstar Speakers. During the last week of July, we have a bundle of books written by our co-Founders.
What an awesome way to beat the heat!
Our first giveaway is a bundle of books by Newbery, Giesel, and Caldecott honoree Grace Lin. Read on for a brief description of each book and then enter to win below.
Thank YOU to all of you who shared about PBSummit 2024 on social media! Welcome to those of you who are new the Summit. We’re happy to have all of you picture book lovers along for the ride.
Let’s announce the winners of the Reveal Giveaway and the BIPOC Scholarships!
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So, what will lead your manuscript from the slush pile starting block to the top spot on the podium? We ask 3 experienced picture book agent that question and more in…
Top 10 Questions for Agents: Featured Agent Panel
Get ready to hurdle over the competition in your submissions! Charlotte Wenger of Prospect Agency, Jazmia K. Young of Curtis Brown, and Jennifer Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary come together in this one-hour pre-recorded panel to give expert advice to apply to your submissions immediately. Hosted by Emma Walton Hamilton.
Let’s get to know this year’s Featured Agents:
Our 10th Anniversary Picture Book Summit theme is: Perfect 10: Going for Picture Book Gold!
Online Conference Date: October 5, 2024
Workshop #1: Winning with Wordplay with Julie Hedlund
Drum roll for Workshop #2 please! We are thrilled to present you with…
Over her career, Co-Founder Katie Davis has sold over 1 million picture books. The key to picture books that keep selling long after their launch date? A really good ending—one that not only wraps everything up, but one that makes the young reader want to read it again and again.
Get ready to stick the landing of your picture book with Katie’s help!
It’s all leading up to this. Just like a gymnast on the last apparatus of the meet, your picture book must stick its landing to have a shot at making it to the medals stand. Bestselling author-illustrator Katie Davis will coach us on how to take the twists and turns of our fiction and nonfiction stories to create an ending that will have kids clamoring for your book over and over again.
Sharpen your pencils now and prepare to take notes on this one.
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Picture Book Summit is offering 3 scholarships to unagented BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) children’s authors and illustrators to this year’s Summit. Our 2024 Summit is on October 5, 2024. Don’t worry if you can’t attend live. The entire conference will be recorded, and scholarships include access to the replays through the end of January, 2025.
To say Julie Hedlund is a fan of wordplay might be the understatement of the year. Just one look at her picture book OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? will show you that you are in for some picture book fun with this workshop! On October 5, 2023, she will be online at Picture Book Summit presenting…
Wordplay works with all types of picture books. From funny stories to lyrical nonfiction, playing with words can be the best part of the writing and reading experience. Our own wordplay warrior, Julie Hedlund, will train us to recognize when we should lean into all the puns, alliteration, and double entendres and when to hold back.
This year, we celebrate 10 years of Picture Book Summit! Mark your calendar for October 5, 2024 for a full day of online picture book writing fun including:
Before you reveal our lineup for this year’s star-studded event, let’s find out how YOU can score a free ticket to all the festivities!
