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5 Tips for Developing Your Picture Book Dummy
Five tips for developing your picture book dummy by picture book author and illustrator, Alexandra Thompson.

Character Design for Picture Books
A deep dive into my character design process for Mia in I AM A MASTERPIECE! A picture book in which tween actress Mia Armstrong celebrates her fun, funny, beautiful childhood living with Down syndrome.

Generating Story Ideas
Ideas can come to me at any time, though usually it’s when I’m in the middle of a tight deadline, or driving, or doing anything other than trying to think of ideas. The spark for a new idea might come from something I overhear from a friend or stranger - a line that feels like it’s begging to be a picture book, something I see while I’m out and about, or a memory from childhood.