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Effective Picture Book Subtitles

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Effective Picture Book Subtitles

Do picture books need subtitles? Well, no, not strictly. Just like any other book, a subtitle is a chance to tell the prospective reader something more about the topic of the book. For picture book biographies, titles are often some provocative phrase, followed by the person’s name and this feels very natural.

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For example, Susanna Reich’s picture book, Jose! Born to Dance: The Jose Limon Story.

But what subtitles can do for you book these days is make it easier to find online and in databases. . .

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