So You Want to Write a Children’s Book? The Art of Creating Children’s Books

Vera Arita, Chris Caravalho, Sue Cowing, Scott Goto and James Rumford from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) will present “The Art of Creating Children’s Books”

This free two-hour program for beginners will present basic information on how to get started: including becoming familiar with conventions in the field of children’s literature, knowing how children’s books are evaluated, the importance of reading good quality examples of the same genre you wish to create, how and why you need to do research, steps involved in writing and revising your own work, getting feedback, and differences between copy editing and content editing as part of the publishing process. The program will be presented in three parts: writing picture books, writing chapter books for early readers or novels for middle grade children and young adults, and illustrating, since the creative, editing and submission process is quite different for each category.

SCBWI is the only professional association dedicated to serving the people who write and/or illustrate children’s literature.

Presented by the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators. Co-hosted by the Hawaii State Library’s Edna Allyn Room for Children and Language, Literature and History Section and the Hawaii Center for the Book.

If you need a sign language interpreter or other accommodation, please call the library, 586-3510, at least two weeks prior to the program.