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Tag: children’s books
Books that build in hard places.
Empowering others through imagination Anyone can choose to encourage or build others in helpful ways but sometimes imagination is needed to harvest additional opportunities. Accompanying a servant’s heart is a mind that will seek to discover ideas that will influence positively often enhancing the life of others. Creative people have countless opportunities to invent in…
The Visual Economy – how important are illustrations in picture books?
Georgia, a student at the CATC Design School was working on an article on ‘The Visual Economy’ exploring importance of illustrations in children’s books verses the written story. In her article she wrote, (quote) “They say ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’ is becoming more and more relevant in today’s society as the world…
Silver medalist in the Literary Classics International Book Awards!
Forgive me for shouting, but my book Without Me was recently announced as a finalist and has won SILVER in the Literary Classics International Book Awards for best pre-school/early reader! (exclamation mark warranted!!!!) Without me received a seal of approval from the CLC recently and they featured a great review of the book. A friend…
Felicity’s Favourite Hug Illustration
Now this is the stuff dreams are made of! My author friend Nola Passmore wrote on her Facebook wall… Great to see the book “Better than a Superhero”, illustrated by Kayleen West, reviewed in Focus magazine (Magazine for the Anglican church in Southern QLD). They quoted a four-year-old called Felicity who said “I really like…
Snapshot: Publisher, Paul Collins
If you have been wondering about what my publishers are looking for this may be a bit of insight for you. Today on Fable Croft Paul Collins (Ford Street Publishing), publisher of my newest title Celia and Nonna shares what he does and what he is looking for. He gives an insight into picture books…