Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
From text to book
A course by Idalia Sautto , Writer and Historian
About the video: From text to book
Overview
“Once you have the full story, how do you arrange it? How is a story presented to the world? I will teach you how to edit the text and arrange it in a fanzine and a self-publication that you can do at home. ”
In this video lesson Idalia Sautto addresses the topic: From text to book, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters . Write a unique story based on the development of a character and their historical context .
Partial transcription of the video
“From text to book In this lesson we are going to see, once we have the final story, how can we structure it in a format that we can use in our home and that it also helps us to expose, whether at an art fair, at a book fair or with a particular publisher. The easiest way to structure a book will be to take letter size sheets. You can do it with tabloid size sheets, but I recommend you that the story can be adjusted to a half letter, having as principle that we are going to fold that complete letter. Remember that our story can be as big as we want. For this lesson, I am going to limit mysel...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative: Create Lively Characters
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Narrative, Writing

Idalia Sautto
A course by Idalia Sautto
Idalia Sautto is a writer and historian. Her passion for creating elaborate universes full of wonder has led her to publish several children's books and write articles, essays, and chronicles for a wide variety of audiences.
Her first published book, Checo (2010), emerged from a series of interviews she did with her grandfather; it's her first children's book and her first publication as a historian. With a career devoted to writing and editing books, it was only a matter of time before she decided to launch a personal editorial project. In 2016, she founded her own publishing company Pitzilein Books, which focuses on editing and publishing books from artists, illustrators, and writers who walk the line between literary genres like chronicle and fiction, philosophy and literature, and graphic works and children's literature.
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