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Editing Children’s Books on Mature Topics: What to Consider

By Jennifer Ladwig

January 6, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing Children’s Books on Mature Topics: What to Consider

While books can be a wonderful way for readers to escape reality for a few hundred pages, books can also help foster learning and provide readers with safe ways to cope with issues they might be facing.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: challenge, children's books, Children's literature, death, dementia, difficult, divorce, dyslexia, Editing, editor, empathy, Mature, mental health, picture, Picture book, struggle, taboo, young readers

Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

By Xian Wang

October 21, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Illustrators and Promoters of Children’s Books in China

Reading is important in the school Can Ran founded for children. She believes a book acts as a boat, sailing to the inner world of a child, and that reading can help children become sensitive to this world and use their own language to describe their feelings.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: children's books, children's rhymes in books, china publishing, illustration, illustrators in China, images in children's books, Indigenous illustrators, international, promoters for children's books, reading to children

A Brief Guide to Children’s Book Design

By Jennifer Ladwig

June 19, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

A Brief Guide to Children’s Book Design

Picture books have evolved over time to serve different agendas, from educational, such as teaching the alphabet, to more “edgy” topics in recent years, such as tackling what it’s like to be a child of divorce. With every change, however, one thing remains consistent: the design of a children’s book must keep a child interested and entice them to turn the page.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: Art, children's books, Children's literature, Design, illustration, illustrations, picture, Picture book, young readers

Making Progress: Publishing Empowering Women in the Age of #MeToo

By Monique Vieu

August 27, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Making Progress: Publishing Empowering Women in the Age of #MeToo

I know you’ve seen it; the #MeToo tag is everywhere. It’s in news headlines, articles, journals, and new books; searchable from NPR to Goodreads. 2017 was a powerful year. Originally started by social activist Tarana Burke in 2006, the #MeToo movement has brought the systemic oppression of women and workplace sexual assault and harassment to the forefront of conversation.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: #MeToo, 2017, Anne Ursu, children's books, Daniel Handler, gender wage gap, Gwenda Bond, James Dashner, Jay Asher, Laura Bates, Lemony Snickett, Medium, power, Publisher's Weekly, publishing, Rebecca Solnit, sexual harassment, sherman alexie, Tarana Burke, The Maze Runner, YA

Read Me an App

By Riley Pittenger @rileypittenger

September 6, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Read Me an App

According to Reading Picture Books to Children by Megan Dowd Lambert, this is an opportunity for both parties to engage in “extended, cognitively challenging conversation during the reading of a book.” It’s a free-flowing narrative experience that makes space for children to develop ideas about the structure and reasoning behind the narrative and art of books.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: apps, children's books, digital, interactive, picture books

OR SCBWI: Art Directors, Agents, and Editors, Oh My!

By Erika Schnatz

May 21, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

OR SCBWI: Art Directors, Agents, and Editors, Oh My!

Like many (if not all) of my peers at Ooligan Press, I want to be a published author. The program provides us with a comprehensive understanding of the publishing industry, but most of us who want to write professionally need to supplement our Ooligan education with critique groups, professional development training, and conferences. My interest […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Amber Keyser, Anne Awh, Barbara Herkert, children's books, conferences, Elizabeth Rusch, illustration, John Rocco, Liz Goss, Lucy Ruth Cummins, Mark Pett, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, SCBWI, The Ninth Day, writing

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