WORD BUILDER

Illustrated by Kurt Cyrus
Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Spring 2009

Where would a sentence be without words?  And what’s a word without letters?
Just like when you’re constructing a building, you have to build your words from the ground up.

 

   
         
   
 

 

TORTUGA IN TROUBLE

Illustrated by Ethan Long
Published by Holiday House, Spring 2009

Tortuga’s friends are worried his basket will fall off his shell before he reaches his grandmother’s house and that Coyote will eat him . . . or are they?  Maybe they’re just interested in the food in his basket.  Little Red Riding Hood is updated to a desert setting with a glossary of Spanish words.

 
       
       
 

WRITING PICTURE BOOKS:  A HANDS-ON
GUIDE FROM STORY CREATION TO PUBLICATION

 
Published by Writer’s Digest Books, Spring 2009

Have you ever thought you’d like to write a picture book, but don’t know where to begin?   Have you been submitting stories, but getting only form rejections?  This book covers picture book form, structure, language and the business side too.  Learn how to revise your manuscript into a polished and publishable story.

 

 
 

Look for my poems in upcoming anthologies

 
 

Contact me at ann@annwhitfordpaul.net