Comments on: Agenting Picture Books v. Agenting Novels: Part One of Two

By: Jessica Shaw

Jessica Shaw — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:27 +0000

Excellent post! I’m so glad I found it. Thank you, Michael…for the post…and for your love of picture books and willingness to work with PB authors, despite the drawbacks and difficulties!

By: Debra Mayhew

Debra Mayhew — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:23:00 +0000

I laughed out loud at parts of this post. Thanks for clearly stating the reality of this difficult business, but tempering it with the reminder that the reward is made even sweeter by the hard work along the way. (And it is hard!)

We all need to hear both!

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Interview with Michael Bourret, agent « Laurie Thompson — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:50:02 +0000

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By: Kathey Lowman

Kathey Lowman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:16:27 +0000

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By: Kelly H-Y

Kelly H-Y — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:40:15 +0000

Thank you … what a remarkable, informative post.

By: Heather j

Heather j — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:53:32 +0000

I loved this post! Thanks!

By: ae

ae — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:08:33 +0000

Well said Ms. Judy. You are absolutely right.

My mom was a kindergarten and music teacher, and if she were still alive I’d be hounding her for her input. She always talked about which books her classes loved and why. And much of it is just what you said!

By: Ms. Judy

Ms. Judy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:49:23 +0000

As a first-grade teacher, I’d like to thank you for this post. I try to read aloud at least 3 PBs a day. The good ones feel as wonderful in the mouth as a piece of dark chocolate. When the kids say, “Read it again!,” when they pick it up and struggle through reading it to themselves because they love it so much–there is nothing simple about accomplishing that. It takes the skills of a poet and the heart of a child to do it, and most people don’t have that combination.

One thing that I think is critical: young children, under the age of 7 or 8, have no sense of linear time. They live in the moment, and life is a bunch of experiences, not a string of connected events. Really good PBs capture that immediacy. They feel like the story is happening NOW, not over time the way a novel does.

By: Keith Schoch

Keith Schoch — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:18:49 +0000

Great, great post. Thanks for taking the time and energy to articulate these thoughts. I’m surprised that other agents (where you work) won’t even look at picture books. Many teachers that I’ve spoken with believe that, given the increasing use of Kindle-like readers, that picture books alone will survive as the only hard-copy books which people will still purchase and continually seek out. Online picture books? Not the same experience, at all. Not even a contender. Again, as a lover and advocate of picture books, nicely done!

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