here’s why: she just read 1000 picture books in 100 days.

yeah. i know! she’s crazy, what can i say?
she was set on her course this past august when a speaker at a conference that she attends suggested that in order to know how to write a good picture book, one must have read a thousand of them. she decided to do so, and moreover, she decided to do it in only a hundred days. holy crap! here’s an excerpt from her recent post about it:

“On the last day of 2007, I reached my goal of reading 1000 picture books in 100 days. It was one of the best things I’ve ever done for my writing. I have a new understanding of picture books that I’m already putting to good use and much fun.

I kept track of all the books on LibraryThing. You can sort the entries by any category, author, ratings, or, most handy of all, publisher. I’m excited about using it to see what publishing houses are publishing what sort of books. I hope you find the list useful as well.”

so if you want to help me out, i’ve submitted the story to Propeller and Digg both. please feel free to vote on them! … (propeller, digg)

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