Here are the prompts I used to assist with creating this textbook.

Prompts using Microsoft Copilot:

Book cover

• Please create an image for the front cover of a textbook about children’s literature with an aspect ratio of .75 and at least 800px in height. Do not include any images. Only a colorful background with the title “An Introduction to Children’s Literature” in a fun, whimsical style.

Chapter 1: An introduction to children’s literature

• Please summarize the following text for undergraduate students.

Picture books chapter

• I am writing an open-source book on children’s literature for undergraduate students. Please write a brief paragraph about what are nursery rhymes for this book in a section that overviews types of picture books.
• I am writing a book titled The Introduction to Children’s Liteature for undergraduate students in various majors. Please help me write a section about evaluating illustrations in picture books. Please incorporate the idea that illustrations can also provide hidden meaning or underlying storylines.
• Please help me write an introduction for this book for a section on evaluating children’s books for literary quality and evaluating illustrations.

Prompts using Perplexity.Ai:

Evaluating children’s literature  and illustrations chapters

• How to evaluate children’s literature for high quality.