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jaxx6166 · 08-05-2011, 10:35 PM

Hey Steven! Glad to see a familiar face.

I've actually never read that one. What sort of age group are you targeting?

I think if you're striving for 4 - 8 years old and doing like a picture book style, you want to keep it shorter than 1,000 words and limit the actual text/word count to be short on dialog, heavy on story.

If you're going for 8 - 11, you could expand it to about 10 - maybe 20,000 for a "Chapter" style book.

11 - 15, I'd go up to about 30,000 - 50,000. Maybe more.

Then again, I picked up and put down Tolkein when I was 12 and read The Sword of Shannara when I was a preteen/young teenager.

Books like Good Night Moon can't be any more than 200 words...

See if you can get yourself a copy of the scholastic book club flyer they pass out to students and check a couple of the books out at your local bookstore, compare your sizes with the numbers in your head

08-05-2011, 10:35 PM	#2
jaxx6166 Wizard Posts: 1,222 Karma: 769316 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Eternal summer Device: 350, iPad, PW	Hey Steven! Glad to see a familiar face. I've actually never read that one. What sort of age group are you targeting? I think if you're striving for 4 - 8 years old and doing like a picture book style, you want to keep it shorter than 1,000 words and limit the actual text/word count to be short on dialog, heavy on story. If you're going for 8 - 11, you could expand it to about 10 - maybe 20,000 for a "Chapter" style book. 11 - 15, I'd go up to about 30,000 - 50,000. Maybe more. Then again, I picked up and put down Tolkein when I was 12 and read The Sword of Shannara when I was a preteen/young teenager. Books like Good Night Moon can't be any more than 200 words... See if you can get yourself a copy of the scholastic book club flyer they pass out to students and check a couple of the books out at your local bookstore, compare your sizes with the numbers in your head Last edited by jaxx6166; 08-05-2011 at 10:38 PM.