Write, Illustrate & Publish a Kid's Book Using KDP on Amazon

Decide the style of your kid's book, rhyming, a told story, or dialogue, covering alphabet, holidays, and dinosaurs, then capture ideas on your phone and finalize in Canva.

Discover step-by-step how to use the Canva illustrator's program to write, illustrate, and publish your kid's book. Learn page setup, element placement, covers, and uploads for publishing.

Learn to craft a kids' book in Canva, from setting eight by ten inches and adding pages to layering illustrations, formatting text, and preparing bleed for Kindle Direct Publishing.

Study a published example of "Blowing and Catching Kisses" to illustrate every aspect of a book, including the front cover, back cover, foreword, introductory pages, and write ups.

Learn to design a children's book layout in Canva, from the cover and foreword to two-page spreads, dedication, and back cover with author details and ISBN space for Amazon KDP.

In Canva, learn to create the kid's book from front cover to back, add landscape images and text, and attach an author photo with your name and optional author/illustrator bio.

Build a kid's book by designing the cover, adding the author name, foreword, and information pages, then craft a matched back cover with the author photo and contact details.

Learn to add extra pages to the body of the book, customize with backgrounds and dinosaurs, and export a flattened pdf for printing to upload on Amazon Kindle.

Learn how to obtain an ISBN for your kid's book, manage ISBN numbers via your country library, and enter the ISBN during Amazon KDP publishing.

Learn to create and record an ISBN in your country’s library, set the book as active, and copy the ISBN for uploading to Amazon.

Learn to design a front and back cover that align into a seamless landscape, with matching grass and sky, ready for upload to Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.

Learn to download your Kindle book cover by exporting the front and back as high-resolution JPEGs, selecting pages 1 and 5, and locating the zip in your downloads.

Upload the front and back covers as a landscape 2-in-1 document for your Amazon KDP book cover, align them, crop white space, and export a JPEG.

Learn how to resize your book in Canva to match Kindle size recommendations, understand common formats from six by nine to eight by ten, and ensure characters fit after resizing.

Learn how to resize your eight-by-ten book for Kindle using Canva's custom size with a 0.125 and 0.25 increase. Copy and resize keeps the original while creating a Kindle-ready preview.

Explore Canva extras for your book to bring illustrations to life with elements, text, uploads, backgrounds, and drawing tools, making writing for KDP on Amazon more creative and fun.

Open your Kindle Direct Publishing account, upload your ebook, and manage tax information and sales reports to publish your kid's book on Amazon.

Explore how to access Kindle Direct Publishing, open your own account, and prepare to upload and preview your kid's book, including tax steps and later republishing.

Visit the Kindle Direct site to download Kindle Kids Creator, load your Canva-generated PDF with the full book and covers, and preview page-by-page in landscape before uploading to Amazon.

Download the inside pages (2–33) as a PDF for printing, then download the full 34-page book with the cover for Kindle preview, and rename files to avoid mix-ups.

Load your PDF with front and back covers into Kindle Kids Book Creator, set the title, author, language, and left-to-right landscape. Preview pages, adjust layout, then save before upload.