Thursday Evening Webinar: Picture Book Workshop with award-winning author and Orca Books Editor Gabrielle Prendergast
Member Price: $18
Non-Member Price is $28
**This event will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to registrants within a week of the session. The recording will be available for 45 days.**
Workshop/event description:
This seminar will cover the “Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How” of picture books for children. With instruction and optional homework exploring types of picture books, literary devices in picture books, and where to find inspiration for picture books, we will discuss examples and analyze different techniques and styles.
We will also discuss the picture book publishing process, including querying publishers and working with illustrators. Attendees will leave with the tools to try their hand at writing picture book manuscripts suited to today’s market.
Gabrielle has provided a Reading List for this workshop for registrants who want to familiarize themselves with the concepts and techniques to be discussed. List is included below.
About the presenter:
G. S. (Gabrielle) Prendergast is the bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens. Her books have received nominations for the White Pine Award, the Silver Birch Award, the Canadian Library Association Award, the Vancouver Book Prize, and several other honours. She won the BC Book Prize for her YA sci-fi Zero Repeat Forever and the Westchester Award for her YA novel in verse Audacious.
Born in the UK and both an Australian and New Zealand citizen, Gabrielle now writes and works as a children’s book editor and lives in East Vancouver in a permanent state of “under-construction."
She can be found online at gsprendergast.com.
Pick up Gabrielle's latest book, The Anxious Exile of Sara Salt
**Digital doors open at 6:55 p.m. Event starts at 7:00 p.m.**
READING LIST:
Picture Book Workshop with Gabrielle Prendergast
Reading List
The Ugly Dumpling by Stephanie Campisi
Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen
The Big Honey Hunt (Berenstain Bears) by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing by Satoshi Kitamura
This Story Is Not About a Kitten by Randall de Sève
Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
If Pluto Was a Pea by Gabrielle Prendergast
Say Goodnight by Helen Oxenbury
I Want To Be An Astronaut by Byron Barton
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Go Sloth Go by Gabrielle Prendergast
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
Blackout by John Rocco
When Isaac Hears the Rain by Julie Thompson
I’m Here by Peter H. Reynolds
Dear Polar Bears by Gabrielle Prendergast
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Sienna’s Scrapbook by Toni Trent Parker
Extra! Extra! Fairy-Tale News From Hidden Forest by Alma Flor Ada
Simone Biles: Who HQ Illustrated Biography by Crystal Hubbard
Meet the Cephalopods by Celia Svedhem
Little Volcano by Johanna Wagstaffe
One, Two, I Love You by Julie Thompson
123 Counting on Community by Annemarie Guertin
ABC Who Can She Be? by Sugar Snap Studio
Four Furious Flamingos by Kelly Bourne
ABC of Equality by Channa Giselle Ewing
One Tiny Treefrog by Tony Piedra and Mackenzie Joy
The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith
Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Nature’s Partners by Eugenia Perrella
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman
The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz
