If you want to create a picture book that children beg to have read to them over and over, you must start with unique and appealing characters. Learn how to craft characters with spirit, personality, and aspirations that young children will identify with and find immensely entertaining.
This workshop contains a 45-minute video with Picture Book Summit Founder Laura Backes walking you through how children think and feel at various stages of their development and how you can use those milestones to create characters kids connect with plus, a list of resources to help you create your next character and bonus Q&A session.
Let Laura walk you through a new way of creating picture book characters!
Your Instructor
Laura Backes
Laura Backes is publisher of Children’s Book Insider, The Children’s Writing Monthly, and co-owner of WritingBlueprints.com (along with husband Jon Bard). Laura has edited and critiqued thousands of picture book manuscripts. Her credits include Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House); articles for Writer’s Digest, The Writer and Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market; and technical editor of Writing Children’s Books for Dummies. Laura is also the host of the weekly Kidlit Distancing Social.
Course Curriculum
Frequently Asked Questions
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
