So, I'm sitting in the public library right now with a stack of kids' books open in my lap, typing away. I'm sure that looks strange. But, I'm "researching." How could I be taking notes from a book that has fewer than 600 hundred words, and even fewer with more than two syllables? Because my dad and I both want to author a book for children, I'm taking the opportunity to use the library card I purchased (yes, purchased; Princeton likes its donated books) to see what children's lit is out there... and systematically dissect it.
The next series of posts, whenever I get around to combining a critique with the illustrations I've scanned from selected stories, may less interesting than usual, even to me. I apologize. I'm using this space to kind of categorize what I see trending in the titles I examine. I'm expecting these posts to follow a very static format, but I'm hoping the continuity will help me realize elements I should or should not be incorporating into a story of my own.
But at least this research has pretty pictures. I do wish, though, that I could be conducting such sessions in a room like this one below or from tomes pulled from a shelf like that one. Much more inspirational, don't you think?
The next series of posts, whenever I get around to combining a critique with the illustrations I've scanned from selected stories, may less interesting than usual, even to me. I apologize. I'm using this space to kind of categorize what I see trending in the titles I examine. I'm expecting these posts to follow a very static format, but I'm hoping the continuity will help me realize elements I should or should not be incorporating into a story of my own.
But at least this research has pretty pictures. I do wish, though, that I could be conducting such sessions in a room like this one below or from tomes pulled from a shelf like that one. Much more inspirational, don't you think?
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