Making Picture Books
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Publishing Details
Making Picture Books
By (Author) Libby Gleeson
NewSouth Publishing
NewSouth Publishing
1st July 2025
2nd Revised edition
Australia
Classifications
Non Fiction
Book design and Bookbinding
Illustration
Publishing and book trade
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 153mm, Height 215mm
Description
Making Picture Books is an essential guide for anyone who has ever wanted to write or illustrate a picture book. Award-winning children's author Libby Gleeson will guide you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and production, until there is a book in your hands.
Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Pamela Allen, Shaun Tan and Julie Vivas and many more.
Author Bio
Libby Gleeson AM is an Australian children's author whose fiction and picture books have won multiple awards, including CBCA shortlistings and wins, the Bologna Ragazzi Award and the Prime Minister's Award. For her services to children's literature, Gleeson has been honoured with the Lady Cutler Award, Member of the Order of Australia, the Dromkeen Medal and the Nan Chauncy Award.
