How To Write A Children’S Book - The Writer’S Toolkit

By award-winning author of more than 150 children's books. Learn writing techniques used by the best books in the genre.

What you'll learn

You’ll learn how to choose words to give your story meaning and cohesion. (Cohesion is the "glue" that holds the story together.)

You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to emphasize the information that’s important.

You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to ensure that sentences flow easily from one to another.

You’ll learn how to begin a scene, how to end it, and how to create the Beats of action-reaction that make up the scene.

Requirements

It will be helpful if you have already written a rough draft of a non-rhyming children's picture storybook in the English language, because exercises will relate to your own story.

Description

My name is Eve Heidi Bine-Stock. I am an award-winning author of more than 150 children’s picture books. I am excited to offer this course to share with you important writing techniques that will make your own book shine!There are plenty of courses on “how to write a children’s book.” So why one more? Because this course offers something the others don’t: A close look at word choice; word placement; sentence structure; sentence flow; and scene building. This is the course you need when you’re editing your first draft, and later, when you’re fine-tuning your story to make it the best it can be.This course is for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced children's book writers. It will be helpful if you have already written a rough draft of a children's book, because the assignments relate to your own story.In this course, you’ll learn how to choose words to give your story meaning and cohesion. (Cohesion is the “glue” that holds the story together.)You’ll learn how to change sentence structure to emphasize the information that’s important; and to ensure that sentences flow easily from one to another.And you’ll learn how to begin a scene, how to end it, and how to create the Beats of action-reaction that make up the scene.We’ll study techniques used in the best children’s picture storybooks, so you can apply them to your own writing!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Word Choice & Word Echoes

Lecture 2 Word Choice

Lecture 3 Word Echo - Part 1

Lecture 4 Word Echo - Part 2

Lecture 5 Word Choice for Smooth Transitions

Section 3: Sentences: Focus & Rhythm

Lecture 6 Simple Sentences

Lecture 7 The Power of a Comma

Lecture 8 Changing Word Order in a Sentence

Lecture 9 Words That Change the Stress & Rhythm of a Sentence

Section 4: Sentences: Cohesion

Lecture 10 Parallelism

Lecture 11 Readers' Expectations: The Known-New Pattern

Lecture 12 Readers’ Expectations & Sentence Focus

Lecture 13 Sentence Order

Section 5: Actions & Reactions, and Scenes

Lecture 14 Actions & Reactions

Lecture 15 The Link

Lecture 16 Signaling the Beginning of a Scene

Lecture 17 Signaling the End of a Scene

Lecture 18 Signaling the End of a Story

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 19 Conclusion

Lecture 20 Bonus Section

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Children's Book Writers