Creating a Children's Book and Blogging About It

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Storyboarding the Book

Feb 10, 2012

By the author, Jim Doti

After running the Surf City Marathon, I was relaxing in a lounge chair by our backyard pool. My wife, Lynne, stretched out in the chair beside me, seemed to be enjoying the book she was reading. While my tired legs soaked up the […]

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Visualizing the Story

Feb 01, 2012

By the author, Jim Doti

In constructing a narrative arc that includes a beginning, middle and end in a children’s picture book of 32 pages, as I did for A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy, I like to work with an outline. Such an outline basically involves storyboarding the book.

Before doing that, I spend […]

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About the Children's Book

Jim Doti's and Lisa Mertins' planned book is about a first grader with a speech impediment who is asked by his teacher to appear in the class play, “The Elves and the Shoemaker.”

Although Jimmy is worried that his classmates will taunt him because of his difficulty in pronouncing words correctly, the play gives him an opportunity to confront his fears.

Lisa Mertins and I both had speech impediments as youngsters, so this autobiographical story is very personal for us. We hope it will resonate with children as well as adults who face challenges in their lives and are sometimes forced to confront them.

All proceeds of Jimmy's Adventure on Stage will be donated to Chapman University College of Educational Studies - Communication Sciences and Disorders

About the Author and Illustrator

James Doti

James (Jimmy) Doti is the son of Italian immigrants. His mother was a milliner. His father worked for nearly 60 years as a shoe salesman. Although his father was not formally educated (he quit school to go to work at the age of 15), he read a lot and instilled in his children a love of books. And hardly a day went by when they weren’t reminded to do well in school so they could go on to college.

Lisa Mertins

Lisa Mertins is a career illustrator, having worked on newspaper staffs and as a freelance artist for over 25 years. She has worked on six children's books and has written one herself.

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Storyboarding the Book

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