![]() ![]() You may want to look through the short tutorial book to learn about the simple-to-use features. Book Creator automatically saves so you and your child don't need to remember that step.īooks created with Book Creator may be exported as an ePub to read using the free iBooks app, as a video to post on the Web, or as a PDF to print or share by email, Airdrop, iCloud, DropBox, Box, or Google Drive.Įxplore Book Creator together with your child. To resize something, touch it and then drag one of the "blue-dot corners" and the object/textbox/image/video will be resized. To move anything you add around on your page, just simply touch it in its middle with one finger and drag it to where you want to place it. The camera allows capturing a photo or a video while making your books, too. ![]() ![]() Just start a new book and then select the + to add photos (both still images and video), text, a drawing made with the built-in pen tool, or sound. Imagine how excited children will be to publish their own books!īook Creator is simple to use. They may type words and add a recording of their story, or they can tell (speak) their stories and you can add the text for them. It's easy enough for preschoolers, yet can be used by older students or adults. Children can add photos, videos, or drawings to enhance or tell their stories. Using the app Book Creator by Red Jumper is the simplest way to create digital books, even for not-yet-readers and writers. Making digital books is SO easy and helps give voice and audience to our children. Review the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines section 3.6 and section 4.3.Telling a story or sharing artwork, thoughts, and ideas are powerful things even very young children can do. Please refer to section #2.5 Adding Text of KKBC user guide that will help you with creating pop-ups over text: ĭiscussion Thread from Amazon April 2016: Hopefully this helps, and if anyone with more experience or insights can add to what I learned the hard way, please chime in! I’ll modify the posting to reflect any input. If i had chosen to use a landscape (horizontal) layout, this is what I would have used: I left my text area blank and inserted text with the KKBP tool.ĮXAMPLES: NOTE that the border is NOT part of my image, it’s only here to outline the actual image area for clarity.That said, I made all my images as follows: The ‘preview’ isn’t really entirely accurate. Originally I didn’t understand that my image needed to be the size of the screen – I guess I assumed that the KKBP software would create the page sizes correctly, and somehow ‘insert’ my image where it needed to be.Įven after I figured out the right image size, I found that the KKBP software ‘previewed’ my book with vertical and horizontal scroll bars, indicating (I thought) that my image was somehow too large for the screen.Įventually, I realized that the KKBP software is suboptimal, and while it displays those scroll bars, the actual finished book works just fine. If you intend to insert text via the KKBP tool, you’ll still make your image the full size as per aspect ratio above, with a blank space for the text. TEXT: If your image contains your text in it as part of the image, add pop-up over text for optimum user experience (this is a feature of the Kindle Kid’s Book Publisher.) If you submit a larger file, it will take much longer to convert and may fail completely, so it’s better to stay below these limits. IMAGE FILE SIZE: The largest single image file KDP can accept is 5MB. RESOLUTION: Use a resolution of 300 dpi or 300 ppi for all images. Some pixel-specific resolutions which fall under this 8:5 ratio are, 3840*2400, 1280*8*1200. If an image has an aspect ratio is 5:8 that’s 5 horizontal units to 8 vertical units – Portrait orientation. Then, below that, you’ll find what I did based on that to make it work.įinally, there’s a few links listed for more info.ĪSPECT RATIO: Use an aspect ratio of 8:5 or 5:8 for the images to fit Kindle devices.Īspect ratio is the ratio of the width first to the height of an image.įor example, an image with an aspect ratio of 8:5 has 8 horizontal units to 5 vertical units – Landscape orientation. I did a lot of digging around, and it’s not at all well documented.īelow are the specs as per Amazon… mostly from discussion threads among users, rather than from Amazon themselves since their documentation sucks. Specifically, understanding exactly how big the images needed to be to display properly on devices, and allow for text to be added. Making my first picture book for Kindle was fun and frustrating. If you find it useful and want to pay me back, please consider getting yourself a copy of Angelico Goes To The Store – and please leave an honest review! This post is probably only of interest to other authors making picture books for Kindle with the KKBP (Kindle Kids Book Publisher.) ![]()
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