Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
Exploring Non-fiction Picture Books 2
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Exploring Non-fiction Picture Books 2
Overview
“Now, we'll focus more specifically on the picture book. I’ll tell you why I love creating these projects and explain my three key ingredients for creating a great non-fiction picture book. ”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: Exploring Non-fiction Picture Books 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks. Learn how to form a captivating idea for a picturebook and develop it into a professional book proposal that engages publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Exploring Non-fiction Picture Books This is my best-selling non-fiction picture book, "Moth: An Evolution Story," which is illustrated by Daniel Egnéus. We can see that it looks from the cover rather like a fiction picture book. It's clearly a book that's designed to be read together with a parent and child, something that you might snuggle up with. That carries on if we look inside. Looking inside, we see the features that parents and children expect to see when they pick up a non-fiction book. You see beautiful illustrations on each page, very little text. If we look at the tone, we can...”
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Course summary for: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Picturebook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Writing
Isabel Thomas
A course by Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science writer and children's book author based near Cambridge, UK. She studied engineering science, then human sciences at the University of Oxford, during which time she worked at the student newspaper and fell in love with journalism. After graduating, Isabel worked as a then-trainee editor at a local publishing house where she began writing short books for beginner readers and working on her passion for writing in her spare time.
Isabel has since published more than 180 books in over 30 languages. Her critically-acclaimed book Moth: An Evolution Story won the AAAS Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020 and was named a book of the summer by the Financial Times. She has also been shortlisted for other prizes including the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. As well as this Isabel writes features for children’s science magazines, creates non-fiction resources for organizations such as the BBC, and speaks at festivals, schools, and other events.
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