The New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Conference in Springfield last weekend was chock full of interesting sessions. I survived giving my first conference workshop ever, on conveying characters in picture books. It’s hard to reveal a character’s traits and emotions when you’re confined to 500-700 words, but I gave tips on how to do so.
Star student Josh Funk holds his debut picture book, Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast, (he has lots more in the pipe line!) between me and his classmate, writer-illustrator Doreen Buchinski
My favorite part of the weekend was hanging with lovely & talented students from the children’s book writing class I teach at Lexington Community Education.
Talented writers & lovely students at conference posing with “their teach”: (L to R) Cindy Hutter, Gayle Stern, moi & What’s Up with This Chicken?, Ellen Mayer (author of A Fish to Feed and other books) & Doreen Buchinski
Hi Jane,
Great time!
So fun spending conference weekend with you, teach!
Doreen 🙂
We did have fun!