I’m currently taking an editing for publication class that has a lot to do with editing all different types of books and we have come to a children journal. Our professor informed us that editors for children books are completely in a different department because they look for different things inside the story plot. For one thing, most children books have a lot of illustration and those illustrations must be approved by so many different editorial departments in case the images weren’t appropriate world-wide. They have to do so much background information for every sentence and every illustration that is approved out so that all children can come to the same conclusion. Children books are viewed more critically because of the age of the audience that call out to. Parents will have to buy those books but it’s the child who pick out what they want to read, so even the book cover should be reviewed very crucially. I found that very interesting because I would have thought, considering children books are for young minded kids, that the effort would be minimal. Even the stories that children books tell are very decisive because it has to have the right type of punctuation, spelling and mechanical fixes that will be easier for the child to read. I didn’t realize how much work and consideration was put into to make a successful children book.