The document provides guidance for creating a children's book, including choosing an age range and main character, developing a simple plot with problem and resolution, using minimal description and speech to move the story along, including a moral, and keeping it short using simple or compound sentences with some complex vocabulary. It also discusses using book description, speech, moral, and plot and defines simple, compound, and complex sentences.

1. Creating a children’s book

2. Planning
• Pick an age range (0-3, 4-7, 8-10, 11-13)
• Pick a main character
• Think about having an animal as a character
• Choose plot(intro, problem, solve, resolved situation)
• Keep description to a minimum and use speech to keep things
moving
• Think of a moral that you want to include
• Try and keep the book short
• Use only simple or compound sentences
• Use basic vocabulary but choose a couple of complex words to help
kids develop language
• Think of a happy ending

3. Simple sentences
• Expresses a short simple idea in a single
independent clause
• An independent clause expresses a complete
idea
• E.g. I hate graffiti.

4. Compound sentences
• A sentence that contains two independent
clauses that are joined
• E.g. I love graffiti, and I wish graffiti artists
were paid for what they do.

5. Complex sentences
• Contain an dependent and independent clause
• A dependent clause expresses an incomplete idea
• E.g. When I wake up
• This idea needs is dependent on more information to make sense.
This is why it is called a dependent clause
• An independent clause expresses a complete idea
• E.g. I eat breakfast.
• This idea makes sense independent of any other information. This
is why it is called an independent clause.
• E.g. When I wake up, I eat breakfast.
• This is a complex sentence because it is a complete idea that is
created by combining a dependent and independent clause

6. Book Description Speech Moral Plot Simple
sentence
Compound
sentence

7. Work Related Skills
• Contact publishers to get estimates of cost of
publishing

8. Personal Development Skills
• Negotiate with author on the look of book
• Present mock-up to potential investors

9. Resources
• blurb.com
• vook.com