How Writing Picture Books Can Make You a Better Writer Over All

Picture books are a special art form that deserve to be studied

Stephanie D. Rondeau
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJan 23, 2024

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When I started writing picture book manuscripts, I did it with the hopes of getting one published. But I didn’t expect what happened next.

In my mind, children’s books were isolated from everything else I wrote—an island in a…

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MS, ATC, CSCS. Kidlit author and editor, query liaison. Mostly writes about writing, health and wellness, feminism, and parenting. Occasionally funny.