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Kids Books

Picture books, print-on-demand.

Square picture books for ages 3-8, printed on demand through Amazon KDP; book one, The Pretty Horses, is finished.

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StatusBook one ready
24illustrated pages at full bleed
3-8reading age
8.5″square trim, 8.5 × 8.5 in (21.6 cm)

  • The hard part of publishing a series is the template. That part is done.
  • Book one is a picture book about a farm, its horses and the children who look after them.
  • Painted edge to edge in one style: barn red, meadow green, sky blue and hay.
  • Made for the last ten minutes of the day, in the format parents already buy.
An open picture book and a small wooden horse on a bed in warm evening light

  • Book one, The Pretty Horses: cover and wrap-around spread finished; 24 illustrated pages, every one painted to full bleed.
  • The interior follows Amazon's paperback template, with a tested bleed proof.
  • Square, sturdy, read aloud.
Trim
8.5 × 8.5 in (21.6 × 21.6 cm), square
Pages
24 illustrated, full bleed
Reading age
3-8
Printing
Amazon KDP, colour paperback
Three horses at the fence by the barn

  • Every copy is printed when it is ordered through Amazon KDP.
  • No print run, no warehouse, no returns. The file is the product.
  • Book one is a square colour paperback; the series reuses the same template.
Inventory
0, each copy printed when ordered
Channel
Amazon KDP

  • All 24 pages are painted edge to edge; five are shown on the page and nineteen more are ready to print.
  • Cover and wrap-around spread are finished.
  • The interior has a tested bleed proof against Amazon's paperback template.
A girl in a cowboy hat rides a white pony

  • Publish book one: The Pretty Horses on Amazon KDP as a square colour paperback.
  • A series on the template: more picture books on the same layout.
  • Book two starts where book one ended.
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