Podcast – How to Analyze a Picture Book Part 1
Today we share how to analyze a picture book.
In many of our discussions and presentations, the Picture Book Summit Team and our guest speakers analyze picture books and use that analysis to illustrate the point we’re teaching. When you as a picture book creator learn how to analyze a picture book, you can turn reading picture books into your own writing class.
As you look for and identify the key elements of a picture book we discuss today (and in our next episode!), you’ll be able to more easily spot revision opportunities in your own work—getting you that much closer to a publishable picture book.
Download the How to Analyze a Picture Book Handout HERE and use it with your next haul of library books!
Books mentioned in this episode:
- The Very Fairy Princess written by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrated by Christine Davenier
- Over, Bear! Under, Where? written by Julie Hedlund and illustrated by Michael Slack
- Springtime Storks: A Migration Love Story written by Carol Joy Munro and illustration Chelsea O’Byrne
- Party Animals written and illustrated by Katie Davis
- Kitty and Cat Bent Out of Shape written and illustrated by Mirka Hokkanen
- B is for Bananas written by Carrie Tillotson and illustrated by Estrela Lourenço
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