Something I've always wanted to do was is create a children's book for both my Granddaughters and Niece and Nephew's children. I've read a couple books from Kindle Select and have been trying to work the creation into what I've been dong here on Steemit. The sketch images I've been making in Photoshop seem a natural fit for this genre of literature as well. I took a series of twenty or so stock images from Pixabay of the same mouse and set to work rendering them all into the type of graphic that would work for a children's book.

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Pappy Pitches In

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I chose to publish the book on Lulu mostly because I like their publishing tools and they make it easy to have real paper copies of your work printed on demand. They also make it easy to convert everything over to ebook format and supposedly make getting everything simple into Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. We'll put that to the test at a future date though.

One of the best parts about creating and publishing on Lulu is that they immediately make your book and cover downloadable in PDF format, and the better part is that Photoshop imported it seamlessly into segmented images. All I had to do is resize each page it turned into an image at 840 PX wide and it was ready to publish here on Steemit.

As far as how to do all this on Lulu, that's a very detailed topic that I'm going to cover in the next post I make. I have a couple dozen screenshots of the whole process and will do a proper tutorial in that post. Meanwhile, here's the finished book:

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Lastly but not least, I would like to mention that I got the final inspiration for the short story from @lyndsaybowes posts about the Food Is Free Project she's been blogging about lately. Thanks Lindsay, I hope the book is worthy of the great work they, and you all do :)