10 Tips For Choosing Storybooks Children Will Love

There are so many storybooks available it is difficult to know which to choose. You will no doubt remember stories you enjoyed reading or having read to you as a child. But today's children have different needs and tastes.

Here are ten tips to help you choose storybooks:

1. Favourite authors: If your child loves a book by a particular author or authors, look for other books by the same person.

2. Series: Look for series of books with the same topics or characters.

3. Interests: Think about your child's interests (dinosaurs, foreign places, space, animals etc) and find storybooks with these as themes.

4. Topics: Match books to topics your child is studying at school or nursery. If you don't know what these are, then ask!

5. Reviews: Read reviews of storybooks and look at the children's books' bestsellers lists.

6. Your favourites: Try books you enjoy or enjoyed reading yourself. But don't be upset if your child doesn't share your enthusiasm!

7. Meet the author: Look out for opportunities to meet children's authors and hear them read. Writers and illustrators promote their books in libraries and schools, at book festivals, on television and radio, in magazines and newspapers and on the web.

8. Friends: Find out what your child's friends are reading and what their favourites are.

9. Experts: Ask your child's teacher, librarian or children's bookseller what is popular. Go to the library regularly and allow yourself plenty of time to browse.

10. Book clubs: Join a children's book club and encourage your child to choose from the catalogues or leaflets. Children sometimes bring these leaflets home from school or nursery.

Use these tips to help you choose suitable books for your child, but don't overlook the traditional stories such as fairytales, fables, myths and legends. Every child should have some good quality anthologies of traditional stories to enjoy as well as modern books they will want to read over and over again.

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7 Tips On How To Locate Junior Editors for Your Children's Book

Are you writing a children's book -- nonfiction or fiction?
Here are a few tips on how to test your almost final draft. And test your manuscript on the same audience that is going to read the book. Make them junior editors.
1. Talk with a teacher at your local school that has a classroom of your book's age group. Ask for permission to come in and read the book to the class. Video tape the children's reactions or ask two people to accompany you to record the children's reactions to direct parts of the story. Give each of the recorders a copy of the manuscript that they can write comments on in the exact location of the children's reaction. They can make smiley faces of J L to save time.
2. Or maybe ask the teacher if she is willing to give the manuscript to students to read as an assignment then ask for the children's opinion. Have a class discussion about the book afterwards with you present.
3. If the teacher doesn't like any of these, let her make some suggestions.
4. Do you have children the age of your readers? Ask the parents if you could provide a manuscript for them to read and get their feedback.
5. If this is a book that is read to children (they are too young to read yet). Find parents that frequently read to their child and have children that age. Ask them if they would read your book to them and fill out a questionnaire about their reaction. Offer to send them an autographed complimentary copy.
6. Don't forget to place this test information and results into your marketing plan for your agent/publisher. It does make the world of different on if it is accepted.
7. How about a Cub Scouts or Girl Scouts group? Find a few leaders and ask for their help in your goal. A local community center director might also have some ideas for how you can do the same in their center.

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