Video: How to Mock-up a Children's Book

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Learn how to construct and compose a mock-up for a children's book in this free how-to video on writing and publishing children's literature.

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Hi! I’m Angela Sage Larsen. Today, we’re going to talk about publishing your own children’s story. Please visit my website at petalwinkthefairy.com. In this segment, we can talk about the mock-up of your children’s storybook. I went from the storyboard, where I had hand sketched the spreads, to actually doing a mock-up of what it would look like page by page, once it’s all together. You can see that I just printed out the story and actually taped it to different places in the page. Then I could move it around depending on where I wanted the illustrations to be and where I wanted the text to be. Once I kind of placed the text, then I was able to find out how I wanted the illustrations to work around the text. A lot of times, especially as you can see in this, what it would show me was exactly what I didn’t want, but because it was just a mock-up it was easy to correct. Here is a piece of tape. I ripped off the text there and moved it up in the page. So, this is a great way not only to help you writing the story but to help you with how the illustrations are going to flow with the story.

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How to Mock-up a Children's Book

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