In searching for ways to put my book together I have found few options. Often it takes putting everything into a PDF file but no specifications on how.
http://taralazar.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/picture-book-construction-know-your-layout/
This article I read addresses some of those issues, but it goes more into how to make it visually appealing.
The article talks about balancing illustrations and the words, but also mentions examples of books with solely illustrations to tell the story.
This other article dictates why it is so hard to find things on formatting children's picture books. http://stason.org/TULARC/writing/misc-writing/1-6-How-do-I-format-a-picture-book-What-about-illustrations.html The reason being, that most people who submit children's books for publishing send in the text first and then get assigned an illustrator once the story is signed off.
This is frustrating.
What I will have to do is either mess around in page maker or make the physical book by hand. I'm feeling that this may be the better option now...
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