If your best friend’s feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She’ll feel as good as.

A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
BEATRICE SCHENK DE REGNIERS

Create Movement Pace Parallel Picture Run Together
If your best friend’s feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She’ll feel as good as.
BEATRICE SCHENK DE REGNIERS

Advice Blue Cheerful Friendship Score
I think of writing–particularly of writing picture books–as a kind of choreography.
BEATRICE SCHENK DE REGNIERS

Book Choreography Running Writing

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