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What Happens Next? Four Tips for Making Page Turns in Picture Books Irresistible

By Laura Sassi

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2021
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About this lesson

Picture book author Laura Sassi breaks down four concrete techniques for irresistible page turns: cutting sentences on an ellipsis or dash, seeding visual clues in the art, splitting rhyming couplets across the turn, and dropping in a well-placed question, each shown against published examples.