Article · Laura Sassi Tales
What Happens Next? Four Tips for Making Page Turns in Picture Books Irresistible
By Laura Sassi
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
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.
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