About the work

A closer look.

You send one picture-book or children's-story manuscript (up to about 1,500 words) and I read it out loud, at story pace, the way a parent would. What comes back: line notes on where attention holds and where it slips, the tongue-trippers a kid stumbles on, and the specific line that makes each page turn. I judge each page by its last line, because that is what pulls a child forward. One revision included. If a page cannot be read cleanly, I say so instead of guessing.