Talented poet Renee LaTulippe is offering a free service for children’s book writers called Peek & Critique. It is weekly educational videos on YouTube in which she critiques children’s writers’ work.
Writers can also access the series through the Facebook group, KIDLIT411, which is for children’s writers.
LaTulippe, who also teaches online courses, invites writers to submit rhyming picture book manuscripts, children’s poetry, or prose for any age children. Every Monday she critiques work that has been submitted.
This series is invaluable to children’s writers. Getting rhyme and meter right is a challenge to any writer. Making writing lyrical greatly improves it and makes children love it.
This week LaTulippe reviewed several stanzas of my rhyming bedtime picture book manuscript, “Crickets Sing Me to Sleep.” Her insights will help me improve the story and make it more likely to be published one day.
Here’s a link to LaTulippe’s YouTube channel, The Lyrical Language Lab.
The Lyrical Language Lab Youtube Channel
About the Poet:
Renee LaTulippe has published poems in anthologies including School People (ed. Lee Bennett Hopkins), the National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry (ed. J.
Patrick Lewis), and many others. She has co-authored
nine award-winning leveled readers, a collection of poetry titled “Lizard Lou: a
collection of rhymes old and new (Moonbeam Children’s Books Silver Award for
poetry), and the workbook All About Homophones (Finalist,
IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards) for All About Learning Press, where she is also
the editor.
Renée developed and
teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab: Punching Up Prose with Poetry and
blogs on children’s poetry at NoWaterRiver.com. She earned her BFA in
acting/directing from Marymount Manhattan College and her MA in English
Education from NYU; worked and played in the theater for almost two decades;
and taught English, theater arts, and public speaking in NYC. She lives in
Italy with her husband, twin boys, and baby daughter.
