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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Arthur Helps / Writer
Men
Action
Book
Picture
Creed
Picture Book
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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
Dick Bruna / Author
Book
Format
Nice
Want
Picture
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As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Book
Boys
Picture Books
Describe
Devoured
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke / Author
Book
Brother
Children
Picture
Picture Book
Wildest
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From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.
Kate Dicamillo / Writer
Cognitive
Standpoint
Counts
Error
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In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
Kirby Larson / Writer
Luxury
Picture Book
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A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
Tomie Depaola / Writer
Art
Book
Doors
Enormous
Visual
Picture
Arts
Door
Small
Picture Book
Sees
Visual Arts
Young Person
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough / Broadcaster
Happy
Inspirational
Motivational
Able
Book
Grandchildren
May
Picture
Never
Elephant
Except
Suppose
Picture Book
Question
See
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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
Emile Hirsch / Actor
Aesthetic
Picture Book
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I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
Chris Van Allsburg / Illustrator
Amusement
Turning
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Turning Point
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A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
Chris Van Allsburg / Illustrator
Arresting
Good Picture
Picture Book
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As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
Anthony Browne / Writer
Pages
Young Children
Carefully
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
Mark Haddon / Novelist
Kids
Bed
Book
Gravel
Imperfection
Picture
Imperfections
Minor
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman / Writer
Likes
Mommy
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Youngest
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky / Writer
Bigger
Book
Differences
Writing
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It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
Margaret Mahy / Author
Book
Example
Ideas
Picture
For Example
Good Idea
No Sense
Picture Book
Publisher
Sending
Text
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I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.
Jacqueline Woodson / Writer
Bored
Young Adult
Grade
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Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
Chris Raschka / Illustrator
Friendship
Emotion
Loneliness
Loss
Pages
Picture
Covers
Painted
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There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.
Graeme Base / Author
Fantastic
Levels
Sublime
Wild
Many Levels
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I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Short Story
Variety
Rise
Month
Picture Book
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia Maclachlan / Writer
Essence
Julius
Lester
My Friend
Picture Book
Text
Tightrope
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My daughter has seen the transition from struggling screenwriter to successful picture book author, and she's enjoyed it very much because she's a wonderful little kid. And she's always believed in her daddy.
Drew Daywalt /
Daughter
Book
Daddy
Enjoyed
Little Kid
Successful
Wonderful
Picture
Author
Believed
Seen
Picture Book
Screenwriter
Struggling
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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
Nick Flynn / Writer
Sister
Adapted
Chinese
Magic
Named
Legend
Monkey
Picture Book
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My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.
Debi Gliori / Author
Book
Boundaries
Responsibility
Safe
Transparent
Truthful
Job
Within
Picture
Addressing
Awesome
Awesome Responsibility
Possible
Concerns
Fears
Fill
Frighten
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
Mark Haddon / Novelist
Bed
Gravel
Imperfections
Minor
Picture Book
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The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
Margaret Mahy / Author
Book
Concentration
Simple
Writing
Picture
Complex
Picture Book
Texts
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I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.
Till Lindemann / Musician
English Language
Germany
Radio Stations
Picture Book
Translating
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Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
Rebecca Serle /
Filled
Unbalanced
Amongst
Certain Age
Moms
Picture Book
Section
Toddlers
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Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
Philip Reeve / Author
Imagination
Add
Book
Children
Details
Elements
Tiny
Clues
Illustrator
Images
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When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
Rick Riordan / Author
Humor
Chess
Print
Victoria
Edward
Illustrated
Mix
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
William Morris Hunt / Artist
Art
Men
Book
Creation
Emotion
Lasting
Monument
Universal Language
Describe
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Suggest
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
Patricia Maclachlan / Writer
Work Out
Time Work New
Each Time
Work Time Children
Picture Book
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Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.
Chris Raschka / Illustrator
Pages
Size
Structure
Work Thinking Me
Images
Standard
Picture Book
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If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.
Chris Raschka / Illustrator
Be Careful
Bike
Careful
Riding
Named
Carried
Daisy
Little Girl
Manner
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer / Writer
Artistic Expression
Bird
Childlike
Eight
Fairy
Flower
Horse
Innocent
Vintage
Picture
Appear
Fairy Tales
Haunted
New Kind
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Tale
Toward
Tried
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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler / Author
Gears
Redundant
Drawn
Illustrator
Manuscript
Picture Book
Prompt
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Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
Mini Grey /
Messages
Subtle
Complex
Convey
Expert
Explain
Loads
Picture Book
Readers
Young People
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My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.
Rick Yancey / Novelist
Bird
Chocolate
Favourite
Treasure
Mother Me Lost
Edition
Factory
Picture Book
Yearly
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There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning.
Henry Selick / Producer
Classic
Empowerment
Revolutionary
Tradition
Winning
Picture
Time Best Long
Wild
Carry
Best Time Long
Consider
Dangers
Facing
Libraries
Long Tradition
Picture Book
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I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
Kathi Appelt / Writer
Able
Book
Bottom
Long Time
Novel
Pages
Three
Time Me Long
Time Always Me
Time Always Long
Picture
Naturally
Ended
Escaped
Page
Picture Book
Seemed
Tried
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Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.
Mordicai Gerstein / Writer
Fascinate
Medium
Particular Kind
Picture Book
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Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
Deborah Wiles / Author
Ancient
Book
Drawing
Elements
Graphic
Perfect
Stories
Visuals
Picture
Stand
Cave
Centuries
Grab
Onto
Picture Book
Telling
Text
They Say
Walls
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