Should you worry about POV?
In this fun, interactive webinar, Chana Stiefel shares how playing with Point of View (POV) can pump up your picture book and add a fresh, new perspective. We’ll explore recent picture books told in first, second, and third person and determine how POV impacts a reader’s connection to the characters and the story. Resources and writing exercises will be provided.
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"This has been great. Thanks, Chana and Kelli. From my POV, you’ve made how we consider POV in our stories more approachable."
- Karen G.
"Marvelous presentation! I wrote notes on changing POV on a
few of my drafts. Now, I have another opportunity to revise. Thank you!"
- Kathryn LeRoy
Your Instructor
Chana Stiefel is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children. Her nonfiction picture book, THE TOWER OF LIFE: How Yaffa Eliach (Eli-yack) Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs, published by Scholastic, won the 2023 Sydney Taylor Book Award, a Robert F. Sibert Honor, the Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children’s Literature, and the SCBWI Russell Freedman Nonfiction Award for a Better World. Other nonfiction titles include LET LIBERTY RISE: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty (a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, Scholastic), and ANIMAL ZOMBIES & OTHER REAL-LIFE MONSTERS (a Top 10 YALSA Quick Pick, NatGeoKids). Chana’s funny fictional picture books include BRAVO, AVOCADO (HarperCollins, 2023), MENDEL’S HANUKKAH MESS UP (Kalaniot, co-written with Larry Stiefel), MY NAME IS WAKAWAKALOCH (HMH, short-listed for the 2023 UNICEF Prize for Children’s Literature), and DADDY DEPOT (Feiwel & Friends). She loves to visit schools and libraries to share her passion for reading and writing with children. She earned a Master’s degree in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting from New York University. Chana is represented by Miranda Paul at Aevitas Creative.
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"Wonderful webinar about POV. I have a lot of ideas now, thank you!"
- Teddie Aggeles