If you want to create a picture book that children beg to have read to
them over and over, you must start with unique and appealing characters.
Learn how to craft characters with spirit, personality, and aspirations
that young children will identify with and find immensely entertaining.
This workshop from Picture Book Summit 2016 contains a 45-minute video with Laura Backes walking you through how children think and feel at various stages of their development and how you can use those milestones to create characters kids connect with plus, a list of resources to help you create your next character.
Let Laura walk you through a new way of creating picture book characters!
Laura Backes is publisher of Children’s Book Insider, The Children’s Writing Monthly, and co-owner of WritingBlueprints.com (along with husband Jon Bard). Laura has edited and critiqued thousands of picture book manuscripts. Her credits include Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House); articles for Writer’s Digest, The Writer and Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market; and technical editor of Writing Children’s Books for Dummies.