Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book

<p><strong>Help your nonfiction picture book stand out from the pack.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>·      Are you struggling with a nonfiction picture book draft? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>·      Is there a gap between the book in your head and what poured out onto the page? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>·      Does your story feel flat or lack the emotion and excitement you know could be there? </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>This book will help you:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Hone kid-friendly hooks and takeaways ensuring re-readability. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Understand a variety of narrative and expository nonfiction picture book structures and how to apply them to your own work.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Craft scenes and arrange them to build tension and drive page turns no matter your story structure.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   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. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Improve your visual-storytelling abilities to understand what can be shown by illustrations on the page.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Increase your book's marketability with back matter and text features.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Understand the importance of critiques partners and where to find them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Craft a query letter and build your agent or editor submission list.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>•   Provide practical revision tips and techniques for forging ahead when you feel stuck.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>What writers are saying:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)></strong><em>Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book</em> 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. ...</p><p>-Debra Shumaker author of <em>Freaky Funky Fish</em><em> Peculiar Primates</em><em> </em>and <em>Tell Someone</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Fact-loving kidlit writers will love </span><em>Reimagining Your Nonfiction Picture Book</em>. 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<em> </em>author of<em> The Truth About </em>series</p>