More and more picture books include backmatter these days—including fiction picture books. In today's Roundtable discussion, Julie Hedlund and the team share many different ways to include backmatter with your manuscript, including dos and don'ts of creating additional content. Books mentioned in this episode: The First Notes by Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton, and Chiara Fedele Tricky Chopsticks by Sylvia Chen and Fanny Liem Reindeer Remainders by Katey Howes and Marie Hermansson Over, Bear! Under, Where? by Julie Hedlund and Michael Slack Grand Canyon by Jason Chin Hurricane by Jason Chin If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton and Lauren Semmer Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane by Kirsten W. Larson and Tracy Subisak Shell Song by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson Springtime Storks by Carol Munro and Chelsea O'Byrne Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper The Bees of Notre Dame by Meghan P. Browne and E. B. Goodale Waiting in the Wings by Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton, and EG Keller The Very Fairy Princess by Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton, and Christine Davenier Webinars on Backmatter: Backmatter: Form and Function with M.O. Yuksel Backmatter Matters with Heidi E.Y. Stemple

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