Why are picture books so important? Children love art. Why do you think they spend so much time coloring, drawing and doing crafts? Whatever the reason children are drawn towards a book, it’s a means to get them to read.
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A Day At The Zoo: Children's (Ages 2-6) Picture Book
BUILD READING SKILLS
Picture books help young children understand that words convey meaning, well before they are aware of the text. Pictures can help increase vocabulary, an important building block for reading. Books can help young children identify colors, shapes, numbers, and letters, as well as names of people, places, animals, and everyday objects.
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The Life Of Black Dogs: Children's (Ages 2-6) Picture Book
BRING BOOKS TO LIFE
Pictures enable children to explore the world within their own imagination and make connections to characters and events they see depicted in books. When you help children connect with characters and events, you make the book more real to them.Source: rif.org
The Life Of Cats: Children Picture Book (Ages 2-6)
An engaging story book for children of ages 2-6 about a day at the farm. Some of the pictures are of baby farm animals and in the captions I have listed the names of these baby animals. Available in the following Kindle format at the moment:
So in today's post I am featuring another addition to my children's picture book series. The book is titled The Life Of Cats. Did I tell you that I love cats? Well I do, I love cats. So with that being said, I had so much fun producing this book, I was smiling through the entire process! I think I will do another book about cats in this series. So just to promote this book, I will simply insert an extract from the book.
The Life Of Cats: Children Picture Book (Ages 2-6)
I just completed producing my second children's picture book! Wahoo! It is titled: The Life of
Black Dogs by Martina Jackson. The first book, titled The Life of Brown Dogs, was published a few days ago and is live on Amazon for kindle. The paperback version is also published but it will take a few more days for it to be live on Amazon. I will keep you posted on that! For the first book, it was my initial intention to do a book about a beach dog. But the pictures that I got are of different brown dogs so I decided to generalized the book. I had so much fun doing it. As I looked at each picture, I was inspired with the ideas for the sentences to insert under each picture. Each book is approximately 30 pages long.
I got free images from Pixabay and used Google Advanced Image Search for images that are free and could be used commercially. I am currently uploading the second book to Createspace and the next step is to upload it to Amazon KDP. This has really been a learning process for me. Here are a few of the processes that I had to do to complete the books:
The images had to be formatted with a dpi of 300. I use paint.net
I learned how to create the back of my book cover
I used Powerpoint to create the book interior and cover. Its so easy"
I finally got Kindle Kids Book Creator KKBC to work for me!