How to Self Publish a Children’s Book with This Free Program

About this video

(Based on the video’s Arabic caption track.) This is part three of a four-part series on self-publishing a children’s book, focused on formatting the book as an ebook with Amazon’s free Kindle Kids’ Book Creator. Roberts says to download the program only from Amazon, noting it is available for PC and Mac. The walkthrough covers creating a new children’s book, entering metadata such as title, author, optional publisher, book language, and save location, then choosing the reading layout: portrait or landscape, one or two images for landscape viewing, and whether the first page appears on the right or left. He recommends including the front cover in the PDF before importing pages, so the cover is already the first page, and shows adding pop-up text boxes or regular text boxes, moving and resizing them, and deleting them by right-clicking. The finished file is saved for publishing as a .mobi file ready for Kindle, which he says needs no further formatting by KDP. He also promotes a Winning Writers contest for self-published authors, saying it offers prizes totaling up to $12,500 across categories with a $5,000 grand prize, and previews the next video on uploading to KDP.

Key takeaways

• Use Amazon’s free Kindle Kids’ Book Creator for the ebook formatting, and download it only from Amazon; it is available for PC and Mac.
• Set metadata first — title, author, optional publisher, language, and save location — then choose portrait or landscape layout and the first-page position.
• Roberts recommends exporting the book as a PDF with the front cover already included before importing pages into the tool.
• Pop-up and regular text boxes can be added, moved, resized, and deleted inside the tool, with pop-ups letting readers tap to reveal larger or hidden text in the ebook.
• Save for publishing as a .mobi file, which Roberts says is Kindle-ready and requires no further formatting by KDP when uploaded.

Episode details: published June 10, 2020 · 6:04 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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