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Posted: July 03 2007 at 6:53am | IP Logged Quote nicole-amdg
for this forum, maybe, but...

Do any of you writers out there have the ear of children's book publishers? How do you think one could get a picture book into print without actually being the author for it?

Elizabeth's thread got me thinking about this, because my favorite story is not available as a picture book. "The Knights of the Silver Shield" by Raymond McDonald Alden is at the Baldwin Project, so I assume it's in the public domain. I searched Amazon but it doesn't look as if there's even an OOP version in existence.

Since then I started a little list of stories I wish were available in the form of gorgeous, 32-page, full-color productions. I find that the original stories by the original authors are perfectly adequate, which is to say they're beautiful and I wouldn't want to change a word by "adapting" them. Querying publishers with my own proposal, not being an author or an artist, seems unlikely to get a hearing.

Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?

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Posted: July 12 2007 at 12:24am | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
I have wondered about this too. I have a few I'd like to see out there as well. Hmmmmm......


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