Picture Book Spreads Explained: How Many Illustrations Does Your Book Need?

When an author asks me for a quote, my first question is almost always how many spreads they have in mind. And the most common answer, by a wide margin, is a pause followed by “what exactly is a spread?” It is a fair question. Nobody is born knowing publishing vocabulary, and the answer turns

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