Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books
Uri Shulevitz
Watson-Guptill, 1997
ISBN 9780823059409

SUMMARY

Introduces the visual approach to writing children's books, an approach which can help a writer release a flow of images and avoid wordiness. The aim of the guide is to teach the fledgling writer/illustrator to ask important questions about the structure of the intended book (and to find the answers) and to show him or her how to cope with the mechanical problems of making a book.

CONTENTS

Part 1 Telling the Story
Picture Book or Story Book?
Picture Sequence
The Story: a Complete Action
Story Content
Picture Book Characteristics

Part 2 -- Planning the Book
Storyboard and Book Dummy
Size, Scale, and Shape
The Structure of a Printed Book

Part 3 -- Creating the Pictures
The Purpose of Illustration
Drawing Figures and Objects
Visual References
Picture space and Composition
Principles of Technique
Style

Part 4 -- Preparing for Reproduction
Printing Basics
Color Preseparation
Techniques for Reproduction