In “From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book,” illustrator Janet Stevens is a character in her own story, where she attempts to create a picture book with the help of her characters Koala Bear, Cat and Rhino. Throughout the book, Janet’s creations are rendered in colorful, yet soft hues while Janet’s depiction is in shades of gray. This choice in style helps to separate reality from idea. For a book published in 1995, the frequent use of word balloons and panels allude to the current trend of graphic picture book publications and of picture books themselves adopting comic book characteristics. For the most part, the use of comic book elements in the story appropriately emphasizes the storyboarding necessary in creating a picture book. However, words outside panels that reiterate the same points found within panels tend to disrupt the flow of the story; and Janet Steven’s words have little rhythm or poetry to them, instead reading simply as expository text. Overall, this book is good as a reference for those interested in teaching children about the process of creating a picture book. However the elements of art and language don’t quite fit together seamlessly.