Grow Your Children’s Writing Business - Articles Index

Build a Relationship with Your Local Bookseller
Practical tips on how to build a relationship with your local children’s bookseller. The do’s and don’ts from someone in the know.
Challenging Words in Children’s Books
Learn how you can go beyond simple language when writing for children, without losing your audience.
Foreign Language Picture Books
Did you know The Very Hungry Caterpillar is available in up to 32 different languages? Find out more about the foreign language market for children’s picture books.
Foreign Language Picture Books - The Market
Looks at the major types of foreign language picture books. Includes links to well known foreign language children’s book titles.
The Idea Catcher Journal - Book Review
Keep Your Children’s Writing Current
Publishers look for relevant, current stories, themes and language. Writing for children needs to reflect this.
Maurice Sendak - Writing Approach
Author/Illustrator, Maurice Sendak gives an insight into his writing approach. Did you know the text alone takes Sendak up to 2 years to write?
Rosemary Wells - Writing a Picture Book
Rosemary Wells was the author of the first ever board book. As author of the much loved Max and Ruby stories, she gives some insights about writing picture books.
The Ten Secrets of Writing For Children
The ten secrets of writing revealed. The formula is easy, and the results are rewarding, but it takes passion and persistence.
What Children’s Editors Look For
Children´s Book Editor, Rosalind Price shares some insights from the Editor´s side of the desk. These tips are invaluable for children´s writers.
Worlds of Childhood - The Art & Craft of Writing for Children - Book Review
Famous children’s authors, including Maurice Sendak, tell how they draw on their own childhood experiences when writing children’s books.
Writing Fiction for Children- Stories Only You Can Tell - Book Review
You’ve Written a Children’s Story. What Next?
We answer a reader’s question about what do once you’ve finished writing your children’s story? What next?
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