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Adrianna C's avatar

Picture books are not the hardest to write. Did you seriously just compare them to the likes of Pulitzer winners and National Book Awards?

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Kate McKean's avatar

I did! Picture books are incredibly hard to write well and get published. They probably take less time and/or intellectual rigor than other books like, say, The Power Broker or whatever, prize winners or not, but most people think they can write them well because they are short and for children, and those people are mistaken.

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