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.

How does an illustrator take your manuscript and create the perfect illustration to match?

Join us as author-illustrator Hyewon Yum shares how she visualizes characters and crafts the structure of a picture book from the manuscript. She's excited to show YOU how an illustrator brings the story to life!

This webinar purchase includes lifetime access to the 60-minute video, transcript, and downloadable audio track.

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, or they’ll kill you.” —George Bernard Shaw

While Shaw wasn't talking about nonfiction picture books, the sentiment of this quote can be applied to writing for children. (Of course, readers only “kill you” by not finishing a book or declaring it “boring.” Let’s agree that is soul-killing.) An author can make nearly any subject interesting and approachable by making it funny. In this webinar, award-winning author Stacy McAnulty will discuss her process (a very formal word for a chaotic approach) for creating hilarious nonfiction books that editors, parents, educators, and (most importantly!) young readers adore.

This webinar purchase includes lifetime access to the 80-minute video, transcript, and downloadable audio track.