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Making Picture Books

By Libby Gleeson
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Making Picture Books is an essential guide for anyone who has ever wanted to write or illustrate a picture book. Award-winning children’s author Libby Gleeson guides you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and production, until... Read More
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An essential guide to making picture books for writers and illustrators from award-winning writer Libby Gleeson.

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Making Picture Books is an essential guide for anyone who has ever wanted to write or illustrate a picture book. Award-winning children’s author Libby Gleeson guides you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and production, until there is a book in your hands.

Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner, Julie Vivas and many more.

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ISBN: 9781742238159

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Illustration: 25 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Libby Gleeson AM is an Australian children’s book author whose fiction and picture books have won many awards, including CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers and Picture Book of the Year, the Bologna Ragazzi Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. For her services to children’s literature, she has been honoured with the Lady Cutler Award, the Dromkeen Medal and the Nan Chauncy Award.

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