Making Picture Books is an essential guide for anyone who has ever wanted to write or illustrate a picture book. Award-winning children’s author Libby Gleeson will guide you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and production, until there is a book in your hands.

Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Pamela Allen, Shaun Tan and Julie Vivas and many more.