Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
The proper voice in the stories. The tool box I.
A course by Natalia Méndez , Editor and teacher
About the video: The proper voice in the stories. The tool box I.
Overview
“The details that shape the text or the graphic project. The work of rewriting and revision is fundamental. It does not serve only a moment of inspiration, the texts are worked, even the briefest and simplest.”
In this video lesson Natalia Méndez addresses the topic: The proper voice in the stories. The tool box I., which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the basic components of a story to create tales for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's see now some resources and little tricks that can help us give to our story a personality, a narrative voice of its own. This is always to keep working, especially, when we're writing a story, but, also, when we're thinking about a story in pictures. If we are doing the script of the images or thinking a story for our story, these ideas, these resources, can serve us to advance the plot in a different way or to give a turn or a turn to what we want to tell. Let's see some examples and some ways of working. From the ideas that gave us the dice, I was working, then, in a text to tell, a...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Natalia Méndez
A course by Natalia Méndez
Natalia Méndez has been working as a publisher of books for children and young people since 2002.
It has its own artisan publishing label, called "Dábale arroz", together with Eduardo Abel Giménez and a very small ceramic and mini-book business "A la zorra".
She obtained a scholarship as a researcher from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich and, in 2012, participated in the Frankfurt Fellowship program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. And in addition, he gives classes in the Publishing and Literature career (UBA), training for writers (Casa de Letras) and training for children's book publishers.
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