Picture Book Pagination Templates

This PDF is designed for both authors and illustrators at all experience levels and includes:

• picture book terminology, very handy
• an overview on how picture books are printed and bound
• descriptions of separate ends vs self-ends (endpapers can be chaotic evil if you don't understand how to count them!)
• examples of frontmatter/backmatter distribution in 32 and 40pg picture books
• a cute lil visual display of some standard trim sizes

TEMPLATES GALORE:

• text outline template for 32 and 40pgs both self and separate ends
• thumbnail templates for 32 and 40pgs self and separate ends
• blank thumbnail template for paginating on your own
• a selection of trim sizes shrunk down to thumbnails to experiment with what size your art wants to be