New Year, New Book—For Kids
Who Do You Want to Be? takes kids on an adventure through rhyme, rhythm & diverse, colorful pictures that ask: Who do you want to be when you grow up?
I’m kicking off the New Year by publishing my new kids’ book. Who Do You Want to Be?, a picture book for career exploration, available on Amazon in paperback ($14.99), Kindle ($6.99) and hardcover ($25.99).
One day my best friend
Said to me
Who in the world
Do you wanna be?
I thought and thought
And thought and said
Maybe a fireman
Cuz their trucks are red?
That’s not a great reason—but there are many other possibilities in this lyrical, illustrated story. It’s an affirming 68-page book written for diverse kids aged 4-8 and their parents, and just might appeal to anyone who isn’t sure what they want to do for work.
I wrote the text (it originated as lyrics for a song) but generated the illustrations using AI (DALL-E via ChatGPT). Because AI software is trained on human illustrators’ work without compensation, I’m donating 10 percent of the book’s revenues to The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
The book includes an index of every job depicted and a page of resources for parents, teachers and older kids. For more info, visit who2b.kids or click below.
Oh wow. What a situation this is. I hope you can generate a conversation about this. And I think you're selling your own writing short.
I've hired human illustrators off of fiverr.com or even twitter (now X) for very reasonable rates. And I am fruuuuugal. I don't see how these for-profit generators trained on datasets obtained under these cloudy "not-for-profit research" rationales can help capitalism flourish
"I wrote the text (it originated as lyrics for a song) but generated the illustrations using AI (DALL-E via ChatGPT).
Because AI software is trained on human illustrators’ work without compensation,
I’m donating 10 percent of the book’s revenues to The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization."
what a swell guy, eh, JH? How 'bout you hire a living, breathing illustrator and pay 'em money to produce your illustrations? Then they can donate some of that money to the charity if they so choose, and also, maybe, pay their rent?