Guest Post: Agent-Author Tracy Marchini on Page Turns in Picture Books

By Tracy Marchini
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

I’ve been thinking a lot about page turns in picture books recently, and all of the amazing things they can do, including:

Show the passage of time Create humor Dictate pacing 
Show the passage of time 

Using page turns to show the passage of time is probably the usage that everybody is familiar with. The story progresses as you turn the page, and with each page turn some time has elapsed.

In a book like Chicken Wants a Na...