title: The children's picture book: How to write it, how to sell it
author:  Ellen E. M Roberts 
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  **Begin Reading**
  
  Table of Contents
  
  Photographs
  
  Newsletters
  
  Copyright Page
  
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  For my children, Tessa, Lucy, Ruby and Amelia
  
   **START CLOSE IN**
  
    
  
    * Start close in,
    * don’t take the second step or the third,
    * start with the first
    * thing
    * close in,
    * the step
    * you don’t want to take.
  
    
  
    * Start with
    * the ground
    * you know,
    * the pale ground
    * beneath your feet,
    * your own
    * way of starting
    * the conversation.
  
    
  
    * Start wi