What to do—and not do—when writing picture books.
If you’re like most picture book readers, running across a terrific rhyme is awesome. So, how is it that most picture book agents and editors say they don’t want to see rhyming manuscripts? If pressed for an explanation, they typically offer a variation of this: 98 percent of rhyming manuscripts get an immediate pass because they’re not done well enough.
Since nearly all the clients I work with as The Picture Book Whisperer yearn to get rhymetastic, I spend a lot of time in the world of rhyme. (See what I did there?) To help you bypass industry bias and create a rhyming picture book manuscript that soars above the rest, here are some of my best tips if, , or .
