Picture Book Page Layout

Make sure your picture book story is ready for an illustrator! Before you send your story to an illustrator, make sure to "paginate" or lay out the text to see how it fits in the 32-page picture book template. Use this picture book page layout to help you update your manuscript to align with your layout before you hit send. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN... The 32-page layout most picture books should follow when laid out as a finished story Where your page turns will fall in order to keep a reader turning the page How much text is on each page to know if there's enough room for illustrations WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE... Google slides sample pagination layout to digitally layout your story as a book Fillable 32-page PDF layout with the 4 pages to skip with your text Video tutorial for how to use the pagination Also found inside our Kidlit Writer's Starter Kit!   How do you use the picture book page layout? Picture books combine both text and illustrations to tell a story, but you don't have to create