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IN THIS CHAPTER

Breaking down the parts of a book

Looking into the many children’s book categories and formats

Using few words to tell a story in picture books

Keeping readers engaged in books without pictures

Children are as different as the many different books catering to their many different interests and desires. Because of this, children’s books offer a wealth of diversity in formats, shapes, sizes, and intended audiences. In this chapter, we explain the different formats that children’s books can fall into. We also show you a lot of examples of book covers so that you can get a feel for successful and representative formats that sell in various channels of the children’s book market. In Chapter 3, we talk about genres, another way to group children’s books. Each genre has its own conventions that you must address, as well.