12 Picture Book Topics to Avoid!

UPDATE: See the 2009 List of Picture Book Topics to Avoid

Dial editor, Liz Waniewski (ONE–es-key) spoke at the Arkansas SCBWI 2007 conference. For a couple months before the conference, she kept track of her slush pile pb submissions by category. Here are the top 12 picturebook topics that she received–thus, the top 12 to avoid!

It’s not that these topics are taboo. Instead, they are so common that you must really rise above the competition to be accepted. Good examples of these topics are given, because we need to know our competition.

12 Picture Book Topics to Avoid

1. First Day at School 19 Girls and Me by Darcy Pattison. (Obviously–my book!)
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