I've been working on a fairly new picture book and used a lot of illustrator notes in it. By a lot I mean that for each line of text (which probably would be one page each) I had an illustrator note to explain what was going on in the background. They are brief and to-the-point, and explain a sub-plot that is not obvious from the text. But, I've had this on-going question, how many illustrator notes are appropriate to put in your manuscript? I've asked that question at conferences, and my critique group has talked about it a great deal. In fact, one example was brought to the group of an author who wrote her entire book in illustrator notes because there were only twelve words in the text.
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