Inside a Bilingual Picture Book

Recently I had the delight of Ginger Mom Reads reviewing the bilingual edition of Nonnie and I. And Dani over at Perspective of a Writer commented that seeing the inside of the book (to get a feel for what it a bilingual layout looks like) would be great. Alas!

[image error]English edition

When my publisher announced that there would be a Spanish and bilingual edition I was overjoyed. Yet, it was not as easy as it might sound to just “make a book that way.”

[image error]Spanish edition

My publisher spent a few months trying to get the layout right so that both the English and Spanish text could appear without covering up too many of the illustrations. At one point we all thought it could not happen. Nonnie and I has a rather high word count for a picture book, about 670!! (Most picture books are under 500)

[image error]Bilingual edition

I figured others might also have the same question as Dani. So there you go, a look at three different editions