Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book - by Kirsten W Larson (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Help your nonfiction picture book stand out from the pack.

- Are you struggling with a nonfiction picture book draft?

- Is there a gap between the book in your head and what poured out onto the page?

- Does your story feel flat or lack the emotion and excitement you know could be there?

Whether you're a seasoned, nonfiction author or someone exploring nonfiction for the first time, award-winning author Kirsten W. Larson provides the tools you need to get your passion onto the page.

This book will help you:

- Hone kid-friendly hooks and takeaways, ensuring re-readability.

- Understand a variety of narrative and expository nonfiction picture book structures and how to apply them to your own work.

- Craft scenes and arrange them to build tension and drive page turns, no matter your story structure.

- Break down the components of both humorous and lyrical voice to discover how to add musicality to your language and punch up your prose using poetic techniques.

- Improve your visual-storytelling abilities to understand what can be shown by illustrations on the page.

- Increase your book's marketability with back matter and text features.

- Understand the importance of critiques partners and where to find them.

- Craft a query letter and build your agent or editor submission list.

- Provide practical revision tips and techniques for forging ahead when you feel stuck.

What writers are saying:

"Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book is a must-have for every nonfiction picture book writer's bookshelf. Chapter after chapter helps demystify the process of writing and revising a nonfiction picture book [to] help it stand out in agents' or editors' inboxes. Larson's conversational tone is easy to understand yet in depth enough to help every writer. ..."

-Debra Shumaker, author of Freaky, Funky Fish, Peculiar Primates, and Tell Someone

"Fact-loving kidlit writers will love Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book. Kirsten W. Larson delivers detailed information, examples, and hands-on exercises in these inspiring pages. Larson comes alongside writers who are ready to take their nonfiction manuscript to new levels as they explore structures and scenes, voice and tension, text features and so much more. She packed the wisdom, inspiration, and experience of a writing conference into these pages. Highly recommend!" -Annette Whipple, author of The Truth About series

Review Quotes

"Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book is a must-have for every nonfiction picture book writer's bookshelf. Chapter after chapter helps demystify the process of writing and revising a nonfiction picture book [to] help it stand out in agents' or editors' inboxes. Larson's conversa- tional tone is easy to understand yet in depth enough to help every writer. With examples from her own process of writing and revising her published picture books, writers can work through the entire revi- sion process with one of their own manuscripts. Her exercises at the end of each chapter provide easy-to-follow guidelines for every nonfiction picture book they write. I highly recommend this book!" - Debra Shumaker, author of Freaky, Funky Fish, Peculiar Primates, and Tell Someone

"Fact-loving kidlit writers will love Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book. Kirsten W. Larson delivers detailed information, examples, and hands-on exercises in these inspiring pages. Larson comes alongside writers who are ready to take their nonfiction manuscript to new levels as they explore structures and scenes, voice and tension, text features and so much more. She packed the wisdom, inspiration, and experi- ence of a writing conference into these pages. Highly recommend!" - Annette Whipple, author of The Truth About series