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Picture Books (PB) / Re: back matter
« Last post by C. Louise Donovan on Today at 07:19 AM »Thank you for this information.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: back matter
« Last post by Debbie Vilardi on Yesterday at 07:00 PM »It's included in the page count, but it can have a separate word count from the story.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: back matter
« Last post by Vijaya on Yesterday at 12:19 PM »Typically you'd want it to fit within the 32 pagination because the more pages you have, the more expensive it is to produce. And art directors are great at making the best use of all the pages.
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Picture Books (PB) / back matter
« Last post by C. Louise Donovan on Yesterday at 10:23 AM »Hello. I'm working on a PB manuscript with back matter. Does the back matter get included in the standard 32 pages or does it get added after?
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by olmue on March 29, 2023, 05:09 AM »I think perhaps there is a difference in where the words are used. If it is the text of the story, yes, you need to use punctuation. But if they are words being used as part of the illustrations (imagine an explosion graphic with the word BOOM or WOW in it)--that would be more part of the graphics, and sometimes you see that.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by zvree on March 28, 2023, 10:01 PM »Ok, thanks so much for letting me know that.
Best regards.
Best regards.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by David Wright on March 28, 2023, 07:37 PM »I've seen conversations about this in comic forums too. Most use punctuation, but not all. Jim Davis (Garfield) being a well-used example.
But I can't think of a single PB that didn't use periods for sentences.
But I can't think of a single PB that didn't use periods for sentences.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by zvree on March 28, 2023, 06:50 PM »Hi, great reply, thanks so much for your thoughtful and logical/valid response.
All good to hear, and yes will do.
Best regards.
All good to hear, and yes will do.
Best regards.
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Picture Books (PB) / Re: Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by Debbie Vilardi on March 28, 2023, 06:42 PM »If you are self publishing, you are the art director and can use what you want as you determine the esthetic. But this may turn off some buyers who want kids to see correct punctuation. Visuals may not be a good enough reason not to have it. For trade publishing, I'd use them. You want the editor to think you understand the rules of grammar.
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Picture Books (PB) / Leniency in punctuation for aesthetics?
« Last post by zvree on March 28, 2023, 04:59 AM »
Hi folks, checking please re our freedom in style in picture-books use of periods.
In my case regarding small statement sentences, and a page of many animal kids in a family each expressing some minor thing eg "I'm hungry", "Mama, now", "My tummy hurts"etc.
Does each mini statement/sentence need to end with a period, or eg can they all have no period?
Of course technically they should in non picture-books. Stylistically it looks better without in this case. It's a very busy page and just seems like there should be no periods for the feel of it.
However, I don't want to draw criticism later on. There are a few other pages with similar mini statements.
Tia!
