by Kate Peridot | Mar 24, 2023 | Children's Fiction, Children's non-fiction, Picture Book Knowhow, Writing Theory
Welcome back to PART 2 in my series, How to Write a Successful Children’s Book Proposal. In my last post I talked about, the pitch, target age, book format and word count, and the most important section of all, Why this Book Now. In this post we are going to... 
by Kate Peridot | Jan 26, 2023 | Children's non-fiction
It’s getting super creative, that’s what! Once upon a time, there were big heavy non-fiction books (probably called an encyclopaedia) that had some great facts, but these books were also used as a prop for a racetrack, a counterweight for the roof of a den, a throne... 
by Kate Peridot | Feb 5, 2020 | Children's Fiction, Picture Book Knowhow, Writing Theory
I take part in Tara Lazarre’s StoryStorm challenge every year – I generate 30 new story ideas (one a day) in the month of January. Though Tara’s challenge is focused primarily on picture books, I use the month to generate ideas for board books, non-fiction,... 
by Kate Peridot | Mar 8, 2016 | Children's Fiction, Writing Theory
We’ve had lots of conversations in my critique group lately about how to describe places and people. So I thought I would check out how children’s greatest and best authors tackle it, starting with place… Here’s an extract from… His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman....