Yes, I storyboarded the whole thing with Google Slides. Also, the art does not need to be perfect for kiddie books. The artwork will get revised a few times so pick someone who will be easy to work with as you figure out what you want. He loves to doodle on whiteboards so I figured he can give it a shot. I recruited my friend to do the drawings. Check her out.įor illustrator, I looked up a few people here in Reedsy but they were all out of my budget. I looked for someone with experience with children's books, looked at a few samples and modest price. Have you ever thought of writing a children's book? Don't hesitate to ask us (or Praveen) any questions in the comments below!Ĭongratulations on writing your books! I found my editor here on Reedsy. And follow Reedsy on Twitter for tips on how to self-publish a children's book and more success stories. You can purchase Bobo Sees Atoms on Amazon here. Best of all, the book critics (my kids and their friends at preschool) had mostly positive reviews! The book is finally done and live on Amazon and we are happy with the result. She advised on the book sizes, artwork style, font and pretty much everything technical except the story and characters. She worked closely with us and created a layout in days. We turned to Reedsy again and found, Annie Beth Ericsson. The online resources and tutorials are not very helpful to us. My illustrator and I have no experience with books so we found the learning curve for getting the design laid out to be very time consuming and frustrating. The next part was the hardest - getting everything into a design and layout that would be acceptable for printing on demand. She suggested that the characters move around a lot from page to page. For example, we didn’t notice that the pictures on each page did not have much variety. I found a copy editor, Amy Betz, who quickly reviewed the script and artwork, and provided several helpful suggestions. While I was making this book for fun, I wanted to find professionals to guide me through the process. I came across Reedsy on a tech blog and decided to give it a shot. Story in hand, art talent lined up, I was ready to go. A friend of mine happened to be a good cartoonist and offered to do the artwork. It would be a story of two friends, one curious and one brainy, learning about atoms and molecules. So, drawing inspiration from a number of popular children’s books, I put together a simple storyline. I decided that I should try to write a book for preschoolers - one that teaches Science. How do I explain how the internet works to a 3-year old using only terms he understands? I found it fun and interesting to be able to explain real-world concepts and scientific ideas to him. My son was constantly peppering us with questions, how does this work, why does that do this and so on. The ‘Elephant and Piggie’ books by Mo Willems were huge hits. He also started getting humor and absorbing body language from characters in books. I was in that “how hard can this be” camp.Īs my son grew into a toddler and preschooler, his books got more ‘sophisticated’. After all, most books have 10 pages, with a 5-word sentence in each page and some goofy graphics. Most people who encounter children’s books for the first time as an adult come away thinking how easy it must be to write a children’s book. Every day I was reading books out loud to a curious, sometimes annoyed 8-week old. Here's what motivated him to start writing it, and how he went about the publishing process.īarely a month or two after my first son was born, as any dutiful parent, I was immersed in the world of children’s books. Today, we're hosting a great story by Praveen Krishnan, a debut author who just published his first children's book to teach kids about science.
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