Writing For Kids

Picture books, middle grade, chapter books this is the place to discuss reading and writing childrens' books.

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KidLit Blogs
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Writing a picture book
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Children's Writers: You Don't Hire the Artist
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Talk about the kidlit you're reading!
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Agent Jennifer Laughran On Kids' Books and Word Count
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Finding Word Counts and RenLearn/Accelerated Reader Website
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BEWARE: Children's Literary Agency (WL Childrens Agency)
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Children's Writer's & Artist's Online Toolkit
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Institute of Children's Literature
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RMarie
Is Kidlit struggling?
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gorileeus
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Looking for the right term for a garden feature
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frimble3
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Concern on word count per chapter for MG
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Aenelis
Aenelis
Is it okay to write a sad book? I'm writing a picture book/chapter book not for sure yet
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Brightdreamer
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oliviawrites
Basic Readers - Challenges with DPI and Clipart
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Agent Submission Question
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MacAllister
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ladyofthecastle
Minimum page count?
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restcity
Favorite Children's book growing up?
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dickson
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What Made You Want To Write A Children's book?
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Favorite Part Of The Kids Book Process.
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Color Schemes Used For Children's book.
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Ravioli
Is my MG novel too short?
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Illustory
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fountain923
Any ideas on this?
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Big vocabulary in Upper MG?
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Nether
Would "damn" and "damned" be considered too profane for MG?
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Nether
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DarkWriter223
Certain Words in MG
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t0dd
Might my MC have Asperger's?
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neandermagnon
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The Second Moon
Does anyone else feel weird using already established, legendary characters like Santa Claus?
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Struggling to find comps
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Debbie V
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jvc
Merry Christmas
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Debbie V
Debbie V
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POV of an old dog in MG?
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The Second Moon
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