Reading and Writing the Picture Book

The picture book is many things at once: a text, a visual narrative, a shared experience. Picture books have the immense responsibility to reflect the world’s truths and wonders back to children. And sometimes, they’re just about butts. Participants will examine the picture book in all its forms—narrative, poetic, silly, rhyming, wordless, nonfiction, conceptual—and will leave the workshop with a list of manuscript concepts and the beginnings of their own story.