In a childrens book proposal, do I replace "chapters" with books in a series?

Question

The book has to do with family types, their hardships and teasing as the main "problem"... I'm kinda of wondering in total if I need to write a proposal for the whole series, or start with one book?

Answer 1

You could do this, but more than likely the episodes in your books will be too detached to link as if they were chapters in a longer story...even if your characters are growing through a logical sequence or do consistent things as part of their personality.

Depending on age, I think children who read story books do remember and get to know their favs by repetition but not necessarily to see what happens to the character next, as in sequentially. They just want to go through another experience with the same character. Take the Junie B Jones or My Little Monster books for example...they are separate entities as stories but do follow a rough chronology of the character growing up and going through different things as they get older.

Still it does reek of marketability. If you tap into a fan base, they will be clamoring for your next release if you leave them hanging from book to book. Time those releases with the proper gift giving holidays and you will be a huge commercial success. You also would want to release them somewhat closer together than an adult reader who can wait...because a child might lose interest in you or forget. It would need the proper marketing because kids don't latch onto authors like adults do, I think parents sometimes do that for them but they latch onto characters more. A great way to do that is to include repeating titles or similar titles...has been done with all kinds of different stories. Harry Potter and the _____, Junie B Jones and the _____ is the title of all those books...or similar titles like Just Me and My _____.

Answer 2

No.