How to Turn Poems Lyrics & Folklore Into Salable Children's Books

Do you want to adapt your poem to a storybook that tells a story in words and pictures-or only amplify the images that you create with words? Would you rather turn your poem into a picture book that tells a story with pictures?</p><p>Will words take second place to illustrations? Decide first whether you will write a story book or a picture book. Then use the images in your poem to clarify your writing. You won't be able to read a picture book into a tape recorder or turn it into an audio book or radio play. You will be able to narrate a word book for audio playing.</p><p>Start with an inspirational poem proverb or song lyrics. Ask children what makes them laugh. You can make something out of nothing. You can make a story out of anything intangible such as an idea with a plan still in your mind.</p><p>Capture your children's dreams proverbs song lyrics and the surprise elements that make them laugh. Record imagination 'what-if talk and personal history. A folktale or story is something that could come from any place in the past from science or from nothing that you can put your hands on.</p><p>What children want in a book poem or folklore is a cave where they can go to be themselves. When suspending belief children still want to be themselves as they navigate fantasy.</p><p>The story book becomes a den or tree house where children can go inside shut the door and play. Introduce children to poetry by showing how you transform your poem into a children's book by expanding and emphasizing significant events in the life story of one child.</p><p>Poems memorable experiences significant life events or turning points are all ways to make something out of nothing tangible. You begin re-working a concept framework or vision. Here's how to write publish and promote salable material from concept to framework to poem to children's book-step-by-step.</p>