Opportunity for First-Timers
Even experienced children's authors & illustrators like these had to start somewhere.
( l-r Jen Mc Veity, Felicity Marshall, Krista Bell, (Hazel), Meredith Costain, Corinne Fenton, Susanne Gervay)
Photo credit: Meredith Fuller
Picture Book Opportunity for First-Timers
Schools set create-a-book projects and adults wish to design their own. Many ask Hazel for mentoring hints.
Most first-timers do not realise creating picture books is a BIG challenge.
So , as an inbetween step, Hazel offered her text (words) based on existing, unpublished stories for students to use.
To encourage:
- beginners to explore techniques based on an existing manuscript
- appreciation of the time and skills needed in creating a work
- discussion of issues within the stories
- diversity of cross cultural stories & viewpoints
Picture Book Text for YOU to illustrate
A new story 'Body Parts' by Hazel has been added here so you can experiment with it as a picture book project.
(Rights remain of original text with Hazel Edwards)
Body Parts for Hazel Edwards' Picture Book Exercise_.pdf
This is also suitable for teenagers and family historians to illustrate.
Hints
A picture book is usually 24 or 32 pages.
- Allow thinking/planning time.
- Look at lots of picture books for design ideas.
- Play with a storyboard,deciding where text and illustrations will go.
- Where will you make the page breaks? Allow for title page and endpapers.
- Design a cover so the title can be easily read and illustrations hint at the most important ideas in the story.
- Add names of author and illustrator(you).
- Or make a dummy book. Consider an app?
- Decide on the kind of illustrations: Photos? Cartoons? Collage? Pen and ink? Colour?
- Who will be your audience? Age? Reading ability?
- Write a 2 line back cover blurb
Use one of the hippo books as a model for the page layout of your book.
Useful Links:
Five Senses Education published Hazel's stories for younger readers in collections called 'Like Me, Volume One' and 'Like Me Volume Two''
Hazel's quirky memoir which is now also available via EbookAlchemy listings on audio and as an e-book as well as print.
Recorded by Voices of Today. Audible link.
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Events & Appearances 2022
Private online mentoring 'Complete Your Book in a Year'
2022
PROV 'Complete Your Book in a Year' starts on first Friday of each month, 10am-1pm. North Melb Archives.
Flexibility to go online.
JULY
1st PROV 10 am North Melbourne
17th 3pm-4.30 Eltham Bookshop Panel.'Inside Story'
28th-30th Society of Women Writers' festival.
28th Juky 11am-12.30 Realistic Approaches to keep Writing in Difficult Times
AUGUST
2nd 11am 'Recollections' Launch, Hawthorn Community House.584 Glenferrie Rd.
5th PROV 10-1pm North Melbourne
23-24th 10. 30 am BRISBANE 'Hijabi Girl the Musical' Premiere & book signings
BOOK WEEK Larrikin Puppets
SEPTEMBER
2nd 10-1pm PROV Nth Melbourne.
9th 10am PROV Survivors Zoom.
18th Noon. Witty Women Lunch
OCTOBER
7th PROV Nth Melb.
NOVEMBER
4th PROV Nth Melbourne
10th Monash.
DECEMBER
2nd PROV Mini Book Launch