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How To Write and Sell Children’s Picture Books, by Jean E. Karl, Writer’s Digest Books, 1994.
*How To Write a Children’s Picture Book—Volume I: Learning from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Favorite Stories—by Eve Heidi Bine-Stock, E & E Publishing, 2004.
*How To Write a Children’s Picture Book—Volume II: Word, Sentence, Scene, Story— by Eve Heidi Bine-Stock, E & E Publishing, 2006.
*How To Write a Children’s Picture Book—Volume III: Figures of Speech—by Eve Heidi Bine-Stock, E & E Publishing, 2006.
On Writing, by Stephen King: A Memoir of the Craft, Pocket Books (a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.), 2000.
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) Publications Guide to Writing and Illustrating for Children (obtained through membership only).
*The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam—a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 1992.
*The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Publishing Children’s Books, by Harold D. Underdown and Lynne Rominger, Alpha (A Pearson Education Company), 2001.
*The Complete Rhyming Dictionary Revised, Edited by Clement Wood; Revised by Ronald J. Bogus, Blue Ribbon Books Inc./ Doubleday Books, 1936, 1991.
The First Thesaurus, by George Beal; Illustrated by Martin Chatterton, Kingfisher Books, 1993.
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1979 or any later edition.
The Synonym Finder, by J.I. Rodale, Warner Books, Inc., 1978.
Touch Magic, by Jane Yolen, August House Publishers, Inc., 2000 or any edition (paperback 2007).
The 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury, selected by Janet Schulman, Alfred A. Knoph, Inc., 1998.
