My guess is that most children's books take less time to revise? It's like the difference between telling a visual artist to do another pencil sketch and another oil painting. The difference between asking for a few, days' weeks', 2 months' effort to much more than that (months, a year)?
I'm just guessing. I've also heard children's books are very very very competative, maybe that's why. ::shrug:: That's just hearsay though.
(what age-level of childrens' books were you talking about, btw? A picture book is a lot shorter and often has both a writer and an illustrator, whereas a chapter book is longer and has fewer, if any, illustrations aside from coverart)
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Date: 2004-08-10 01:59 pm (UTC)I'm just guessing. I've also heard children's books are very very very competative, maybe that's why. ::shrug:: That's just hearsay though.
(what age-level of childrens' books were you talking about, btw? A picture book is a lot shorter and often has both a writer and an illustrator, whereas a chapter book is longer and has fewer, if any, illustrations aside from coverart)