Has anyone created a PICTURE BOOK in iBooks Author?

With no content on TOC page, when I preview on my iPad, it takes my pictures from the pages and automatically inserts them into the TOC along the bottom. On my other thread it was revealed if you eliminate the TOC Apple won't publish your book. I just can't believe that Apple would not think ahead that some of us are in the picture book world and would want to use their wonderful app to ... publish a picture book.

OK, so I looked at children's picture books on offer in the ibookstore and I can't see any that have the clumsy row of photos along the bottom of a TOC page in landscape. Does that mean that no one has published a children's picture book using IBA? Sure would like to hear a definitive answer as I would like to create and then publish thru the IBA process. Help!

Great, so how do you handle getting rid of the TOC page? Does it simply not show up if you don't put any content into it? Off to play with widgets. Can you tell the name of your title?

OK, I just tried inserting a gallery widget in a few different templates. As soon as I select TOC, the widget icon grays out and becomes non-functional. What is your secret for inserting the widget in TOC?

Still trying to figure this out. I did a test preview with a clean template and inserted a few full page pics with the gallery widget. So, the TOC page still shows up. How does one write to Apple to get this cleared up? A yes or no would be great. This gray area "maybe this will work" "no, nothing works" stuff is silly. I just can't believe they would not allow picture books to be crafted with their app.

The only workaround that I can find is to use the first 6-8 pages of the book with filler jpegs so that when the TOC is displayed, the row of pics along the bottom is ...filler thumbnails and not crucial story info. How sloppy!

Yes, it really is "a big deal" and yes it does ruin their experience. I am in the hopes of producing as professional of a book as possible. I should be able to do that with IBA. Having a row of thumbnails, and even a TOC in a children's picture book is absurd. I can tell you this, a professional publisher would never allow a row of thumbnails and a TOC in a children's picture book. I look forward to your children reading my book 1000 times...once it is formatted properly.

We are building a video ebook, using text, filmed video clips of the characters, still pics and audio and want to have it released in this IBA format according to what we think is proper as far as presentation is, to our audience. The problem of incorrect formatting for a children's picture book in IBA is very much there. Part of this issue is creative control and the other part is unnecessarily revealing the visual storyline on the first page of the book. Thanks for your input though.

Again, has anyone produced a children's picturebook throuh IBA that has made it through the vetting process, and is for sale in the iBookstore? Would love to see it and how you formatted it and, I just might be a customer!

Yes, maddening and unnecessary. If it was just the TOC I could work with/alter it but it is that row of thumbnails at the bottom. And with the first one larger than the rest, it simply looks like a mistake in formatting was made...by me.