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Title: Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market, 2000: 800 Editors & Art Directors Who Buy Your Writing & Illustrations (Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market, 2000) by Alice W. Pope ISBN: 0-89879-935-X Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An absolute must for children's writers
Comment: If you want to find out where to submit your novel or story, there's no doubt that Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is about the best place to look. Unfortunately, despite the 2000 edition's claim of containing 250+ book publishers, the number I found suitable for a fantasy novel was pathetically small. A publisher for children that doesn't have a fantasy list has always seemed to me like a butcher shop without sausages, a hot bread shop without French loaves, a sweet shop without toffees ...
However, this is a publishing fault rather than a criticism of the book. My only criticism of the book itself is that you have to shelve out somewhere in the region of US$22 every year. Using last year's edition could land you up addressing your package to the wrong editor.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Have Book
Comment: What's to say about Children's Writer's and Illustrator's market? If you write or illustrate children's books you have to have this book. A library edition won't do because this book has to have yellow highlighting and colored tabs applied! and then too, it needs to be constantly updated as new information arrives about which editor is working where and which publisher is still in business. No, every writer and illustrator needs their very own copy!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Children's Writer's an Illustrators' Bibel
Comment: And, no, that's NOT a typo.
While every Writer's Digest Books "Market" title is a valuable source of information about who to contact and what to send, the reputation is slightly tainted with this year's edition of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. The very same guide that admonishes the hopeful author and illustrator to dot every "i" and cross every "t" is riddled with the kinds of typographical and grammatical errors that send one's dreams to the dreaded slush pile.
Examples:
"Paula Danzier collaborated with friend Ann M. Martin for 'P.S. Longer Letter Later' and it's (sic) sequel 'Snail Mail No More.'"
"Her book is a first-person account of three days in the life of Memphis Riley, a thirteen-year-old girl who has lived with her grandmother Naomi four (sic) five years. . ."
". . .and also deals with sibling rivalry from the point of view of an 'only dog' dealing with the edition (sic) of a new baby."
Throughout the book, the reader is constantly exhorted to put together a professional, error-free presentation but that advice can be a little disheartening when one's own Bible doesn't practice what it preaches.
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Title: How to Write a Children's Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling ISBN: 0684193434 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 2003 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market by Alice Pope, Mona Michael ISBN: 158297148X Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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