This is a hands-on, user-friendly guide to writing and illustrating picture books for young children. Each chapter brings together informative exercises for writers and illustrators with intriguing insight into the world of the picture book maker. It offers critical scholarship in literacy, visual and textual studies, together with theories of creativity, illustration, creative writing and visual understanding in picture books.The book combines the art and images of the children 's picture book illustrator with the text and story of the picture book writer, highlighting the collaborative process involved in creating a picture book. While encouraging practitioners to reflect on their art and create new ideas and concepts, the book also offers an accessible framework for teachers to identify the intricacies of the picture book in an increasingly electronic market. The Picture Book Maker is essential reading for lecturers and students on BA and MA Illustration, Creative Writing and Design courses and will be indispensible to educators and students in primary education and for those studying writing and illustration of children 's books.