--- product_id: 256805930 title: "PENGUIN Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication" price: "₱2586" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/256805930-penguin-writing-picture-books-revised-and-expanded-a-hands-on store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # 32-page classic format focus on ages 2-8 under 500 words ideal manuscript PENGUIN Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication **Price:** ₱2586 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ✍️ Unlock the magic of storytelling for the next generation! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** PENGUIN Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication - **How much does it cost?** ₱2586 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/256805930-penguin-writing-picture-books-revised-and-expanded-a-hands-on) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Craft Stories Kids Crave:** Learn to write engaging, easy-to-read stories that captivate young minds with action and dialogue. - • **Stay Ahead in Publishing:** Updated and expanded edition reflecting current trends and diverse childhood experiences. - • **Expert Insights from a Pro:** Authored by Ann Whitford Paul, a seasoned children’s author with 21 published books and social work background. - • **Innovative Narrative Voices:** Explore unique storytelling techniques like apostrophe and mask voice to add whimsy and depth. - • **Master the Art of Picture Books:** Step-by-step guide from story creation to publication tailored for children’s literature. ## Overview Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded is the definitive, fully updated guide for aspiring authors focused on crafting compelling picture books for children ages 2 to 8. With practical advice on story structure, language, and unique narrative voices, this book combines expert insights from Ann Whitford Paul’s extensive experience to help writers create memorable, publishable works that resonate with young readers and their adult audiences alike. ## Description "Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight."--Back of book. Review: Paul Writes with Pictures - Our relationship with picture books runs deep, certainly deeper that can easily be expressed in words. Think about the foods that had special meaning to you when you were young, like watermelon, chicken noodle soup, and chocolate chip cookies. These foods remind me of my grandmother and life on the farm. Later events, places, and people never reached into my soul and touched me so elementally. Introduction Ann Whitford Paul writes, in Writing Picture Books, this statement of objectives: “Picture books are usually read by an adult to a nonreader. To that end, picture books combine words with pictures that entice the nonreader to listen and help her construct meaning from the words. Picture books. Traditionally find an audience in young children. Today, some picture books and graphic novels are published for fluent readers, even adults, but this book will focus on those aimed at children ages two through eight.” (7-8) The ideal manuscript has less than 500 words and fits in the typical 32-page format, focusing on action and dialogue. (8-9) Paul offers twelve tips for writing for children and an additional three tips for the adults who will be reading: 1. Everything is new. 2. Children have had few experiences. 3. Children live in the present. 4. Children have strong emotions. 5. Sometimes childhood is not happy. 6. Children perceive more than we think they do. 7. Children have short attention spans. 8. Children are self-centered. 9. Children long to be independent. 10. Children are complicated. 11. Children have rich imaginations. 12. Almost any topics is okay for a picture book. 13. Language does not have to be babyish. 14. Make books easy to read aloud. 15. Adults are frequently asked to read and reread picture books (10-16). While some of this advice may sound obvious, Paul returns to many of these themes over and over in her guidance. Background and Organization Ann Whitford Paul tells us little about her formal training and work experience. Her website reports: “But I didn’t think about being a children’s book author in middle school or high school or when I studied sociology at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, and earned a master’s degree in social work at Columbia university. I worked as a social worker until my children were born. I was still reading books, only now to my children.” Paul’s website cites only one book for adults, this one, but lists twenty-one children’s books. Because about a third of children under the age of twenty have Hispanic heritage, I find it interesting that she writes a number of books with a bilingual theme or title, such as Mañana Iguana. Being from Los Angeles, I suspect that she is aware of the demographic of childhood today. Paul writes in twenty-five chapters divided into six parts plus voluminous front and back matter: 1. Before You Write Your Story 2. Early Story Decisions 3. The Structure of Your Story 4. The Language of your Story 5. Tying together Loose Ends 6. After Your Story Is Done (v-vi) Paul’s writing is surprisingly precise and covers a number of topics, like a primer on poetry and how to choose a title, that are not typically included in writers’ how-to books. Memorable Moments How do you create whimsy? Although Paul does not mention whimsy, one attribute of children’s literature is a distinctive whimsical tone. Where else do you run across dressed up animals that unremarkably talk? Paul does, however, give us some clues. Paul describes the animals as kids with fur. Animals allow the author to talk about difficult topics, like race relations, without wandering into politically difficult territory or the raises issue, like death, that are scary enough for adults, let alone children. One way that Paul delicately strikes a good tone is through experimenting with alternative voices, some that are not familiar to other genres. Have you heard of apostrophe voice? Paul writes: ”In this voice, the writer speaks to something in the story that can’t speak back.” (40) She writes: “Good morning, toes, Good morning feet, Tangled up between My sheets. Be the first to touch the floor, Hop me to the closet door.” (41) Or how about mask voice, where “the narrator becomes an inanimate object, like a tree, desk, or bed, and tells the story from that object’s point of view.” (42) Clearly, to write for children, you need to enter a child’s world. Assessment Ann Whitford Paul’s Writing Picture Books is an interesting book on the craft of writing children’s books. While I turned to this book as I approached my own children’s book writing project, this is a book worthy of being read by authors in other genres. Why? This is a book that will stretch you as a writer and you may be surprised to find that you enjoy it, just for the reading. I certainly did. Review: Very good - Easy to read, so far very good. ## Features - Item Trademark: WRITER'S DIGEST BOOKS - manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books - Item Weight: pounds, pounds, 0.72, 0.72 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #18,110 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Book Publishing #17 in Academic & Scholarly Writing #22 in Creative Writing Composition | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 747 Reviews | ## Images ![PENGUIN Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/918RZB4vjwL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paul Writes with Pictures *by S***ﻦ on 11 November 2020* Our relationship with picture books runs deep, certainly deeper that can easily be expressed in words. Think about the foods that had special meaning to you when you were young, like watermelon, chicken noodle soup, and chocolate chip cookies. These foods remind me of my grandmother and life on the farm. Later events, places, and people never reached into my soul and touched me so elementally. Introduction Ann Whitford Paul writes, in Writing Picture Books, this statement of objectives: “Picture books are usually read by an adult to a nonreader. To that end, picture books combine words with pictures that entice the nonreader to listen and help her construct meaning from the words. Picture books. Traditionally find an audience in young children. Today, some picture books and graphic novels are published for fluent readers, even adults, but this book will focus on those aimed at children ages two through eight.” (7-8) The ideal manuscript has less than 500 words and fits in the typical 32-page format, focusing on action and dialogue. (8-9) Paul offers twelve tips for writing for children and an additional three tips for the adults who will be reading: 1. Everything is new. 2. Children have had few experiences. 3. Children live in the present. 4. Children have strong emotions. 5. Sometimes childhood is not happy. 6. Children perceive more than we think they do. 7. Children have short attention spans. 8. Children are self-centered. 9. Children long to be independent. 10. Children are complicated. 11. Children have rich imaginations. 12. Almost any topics is okay for a picture book. 13. Language does not have to be babyish. 14. Make books easy to read aloud. 15. Adults are frequently asked to read and reread picture books (10-16). While some of this advice may sound obvious, Paul returns to many of these themes over and over in her guidance. Background and Organization Ann Whitford Paul tells us little about her formal training and work experience. Her website reports: “But I didn’t think about being a children’s book author in middle school or high school or when I studied sociology at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, and earned a master’s degree in social work at Columbia university. I worked as a social worker until my children were born. I was still reading books, only now to my children.” Paul’s website cites only one book for adults, this one, but lists twenty-one children’s books. Because about a third of children under the age of twenty have Hispanic heritage, I find it interesting that she writes a number of books with a bilingual theme or title, such as Mañana Iguana. Being from Los Angeles, I suspect that she is aware of the demographic of childhood today. Paul writes in twenty-five chapters divided into six parts plus voluminous front and back matter: 1. Before You Write Your Story 2. Early Story Decisions 3. The Structure of Your Story 4. The Language of your Story 5. Tying together Loose Ends 6. After Your Story Is Done (v-vi) Paul’s writing is surprisingly precise and covers a number of topics, like a primer on poetry and how to choose a title, that are not typically included in writers’ how-to books. Memorable Moments How do you create whimsy? Although Paul does not mention whimsy, one attribute of children’s literature is a distinctive whimsical tone. Where else do you run across dressed up animals that unremarkably talk? Paul does, however, give us some clues. Paul describes the animals as kids with fur. Animals allow the author to talk about difficult topics, like race relations, without wandering into politically difficult territory or the raises issue, like death, that are scary enough for adults, let alone children. One way that Paul delicately strikes a good tone is through experimenting with alternative voices, some that are not familiar to other genres. Have you heard of apostrophe voice? Paul writes: ”In this voice, the writer speaks to something in the story that can’t speak back.” (40) She writes: “Good morning, toes, Good morning feet, Tangled up between My sheets. Be the first to touch the floor, Hop me to the closet door.” (41) Or how about mask voice, where “the narrator becomes an inanimate object, like a tree, desk, or bed, and tells the story from that object’s point of view.” (42) Clearly, to write for children, you need to enter a child’s world. Assessment Ann Whitford Paul’s Writing Picture Books is an interesting book on the craft of writing children’s books. While I turned to this book as I approached my own children’s book writing project, this is a book worthy of being read by authors in other genres. Why? This is a book that will stretch you as a writer and you may be surprised to find that you enjoy it, just for the reading. I certainly did. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good *by R***S on 19 June 2026* Easy to read, so far very good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ プレゼントとして買いました *by ハ***ム on 23 October 2023* プレゼントで買いましたが 満足してもらえたようです。 ## Frequently Bought Together - Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication - How To Self-Publish A Children's Book: Everything You Need To Know To Write, Illustrate, Publish, And Market Your Paperback And Ebook - How to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Guide to Visual Storytelling --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/256805930-penguin-writing-picture-books-revised-and-expanded-a-hands-on](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/256805930-penguin-writing-picture-books-revised-and-expanded-a-hands-on) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-10-09*