Cooking Up Funny Picture Books

with Julie Hedlund

Ready to write funny?

Award-winning author Julie Hedlund has created this presentation especially for picture book writers and illustrators who want to write humorous stories for kids!

If you want kids to get the giggles when reading your funny picture book, you need a unique stew of surprise, subtext, timing, and illustrations (even if you're not an illustrator). With ample examples from recently published picture books, we will both analyze humor AND keep the frog alive.


This webinar purchase includes lifetime access to the 90-minute video, transcript, downloadable audio track, and a handout with an overview of 7 types of funny picture books.



"Learned so much! I will be reading some of these books. Inspired to pursue this type of writing."

- Gigi Matlack


"This was great. Thanks Julie! Going to add some humor to something now."

- Ellen Leventhal


Your Instructor


Julie Hedlund
Julie Hedlund

Julie Hedlund is an award-winning children's book author, the founder of the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge, which boasts more than 1,700 members. She is a co-founder of Picture Book Summit, an annual online conference, and the co-creator (with Emma Walton Hamilton) of The Complete Picture Book Submissions System.

Julie's picture books include OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? (Philomel), MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE SUN (Little Bahalia Publishing) and A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS (Little Bahalia Publishing). Her Crystal Kite winning picture book biography SONG AFTER SONG: THE MUSICAL LIFE OF JULIE ANDREWS is available now.

Julie lives in Boulder, Colorado with her son and daughter and a whoodle who is high-maintenance enough to be considered a third child.



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