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It's Friday afternoon, and the Bank Holiday weekend is stretching out in front of us, glittering with infinite possibilities. Yes, I have a whole three days to lie on the couch watching reruns of Mission: Impossible! (Last night I was faintly offended by one of my favourite ever reference books, the New Biographical Dictionary of Film, when Thomson described Martin Landau as 'dankly enduring'.)
Anyway, I'd be very interested to hear from the denizens of Writing for Kids on the subject of What You Like in Picture Books. For grubby commercial reasons I'm only really interested in what you like to buy - even if you're buying picture books as presents or as art books for yourself. It doesn't matter where you are - the UK, the USA or elsewhere - as my agents are everywhere.
Which authors / illustrators do you like? Are there things you'd buy if only they existed? Do you pay any attention to branding i.e. who publishes a book? What do your kids ask you to read over and over again?
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts, so if you could spare a little time to think about this and post, I'd be much obliged.
EDIT: I'm not conducting any sort of organized, paid or remotely scientific research here - just some thoughts for a slow afternoon.
Anyway, I'd be very interested to hear from the denizens of Writing for Kids on the subject of What You Like in Picture Books. For grubby commercial reasons I'm only really interested in what you like to buy - even if you're buying picture books as presents or as art books for yourself. It doesn't matter where you are - the UK, the USA or elsewhere - as my agents are everywhere.
Which authors / illustrators do you like? Are there things you'd buy if only they existed? Do you pay any attention to branding i.e. who publishes a book? What do your kids ask you to read over and over again?
I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts, so if you could spare a little time to think about this and post, I'd be much obliged.
EDIT: I'm not conducting any sort of organized, paid or remotely scientific research here - just some thoughts for a slow afternoon.
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