Picture Book Sound Design: Rhythm and Rhyme with Carter Higgins
Apr 21, 2026
Online event
Join Carter Higgins for a webinar that will give you tips and tricks for strengthening the musicality of your manuscripts.
Most picture books are meant to be read out loud. How does yours actually sound to a listener's ear? This webinar will give you tips and tricks for strengthening the musicality of your manuscripts. We'll consider why writing in rhyme gives everyone the heebie-jeebies, how to revise for rhythm, and when to break the monotony of perfect meter. This event will be recorded, and a replay will be available for 30 days after the live event.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Virtual
7pm-8:15pm Eastern Daylight Time
$30/$15 for premium members
Learn more about your speaker
Carter Higgins is the author of many books for young readers, including Everything You Need for a Treehouse, an NPR Best Book of the Year, This is Not a Valentine, a Kids' Indie Next List selection, and the chapter book series, Audrey L & Audrey W. Her first book as both author and illustrator, Circle Under Berry, was named a Best Book of 2021 by Publisher’s Weekly, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Carter is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids' language is the best poetry of all. She is an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. You can find her on Instagram at @carterhiggins or on Bluesky at @carterhiggins.bsky.social. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.