Easy Reader Upgrade
Now You Can Use Picture Book Blueprint to Create Early Easy Readers! (Requires Picture Book Blueprint)
With this video/worksheet bundle, Picture Book Blueprint users can create wonderful Early Easy Readers without having to buy another Blueprint!
In easy Reader Upgrade, Laura....
- explains what Early Easy Readers are and why it's such a great category for children's writers
- describes the three types of Early Easy Readers
- teaches how to take a manuscript that isn't working as a Picture Book and turn it into an Early Easy Reader
- shows exactly how to use Picture Book Blueprint to create an Early Easy Reader
- provides a collection of all-new worksheets that make adapting Picture Book Blueprint for Early Easy Readers a snap!
You'll get lifetime access to Easy Reader Upgrade right next to your Picture Book Blueprint. It couldn't be more convenient!
Your Instructor
Violet Lemay's career as an an illustrator and author spans more than 50 books, and includes work with HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, duopress, 'Magination Press, and Michael Sampson Books. As an editorial illustrator, Violet contributed art to hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Parents Magazine featured TummyTime: Happy Baby as #4 in their "20 First Baby Books You'll Both Love" in 2019. In 2020, the Chicago Public Library included Library Babies as one of their best books, and School Library Journal included Babies Around the World in their "50 Children's Books that Celebrate Diversity". In 2022, Readers Digest ranked Babies Around the World #4 in their list of the top 100 children's books of all time! Let's Be Friends (HarperFestival/2021) won BookFest's first place award for diversity in children's books and Firebird's board book award.
Violet's latest book, Alithia Ramirez Was an Artist, celebrates the life and art of a young victim of the Uvalde tragedy.
Written with the support of Alithia's parents, this touching story has resonated throughout the publishing world, sweeping the Children's Book Council's Favorite award categories (Children's Favorite, Librarian Favorite & Teacher Favorite for grades 3-5).
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Violet and her family became globe hoppers when they moved to New Zealand for her husband's job. From there they moved to China, and then to Malaysia. If she’s not at her desk writing or drawing, she’s probably at the library, reading.