Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

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A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

— Chris Van Allsburg

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I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

— Jacqueline Woodson

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

— Mark Haddon

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A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

— Tomie dePaola

In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.

— Kirby Larson

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