When writing picture book texts have you ever heard the following advice?   ‘You must leave room for the illustrations.’ I know I have.  As a largely intuitive person, I have soaked in the knowledge from classes, conferences, workshops, and reading slowly over time. I can compare my picture book texts from two years ago to texts from today and see a difference — more room. So how can you achieve this in your own writing? Here’s a few things that have worked for me. 1) Reading at least 30-40+ classic & new picture books.      I don’t just mean flip through the pages, get the general gist of the…