How This Book Was Made - by Mac Barnett (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>You may think you know how this book was made, but you don't. Sure, the author wrote many drafts, and the illustrator took a long time creating the art, but then what? How'd it get into your hands? Well, open the cover and read through these pages to find out. Just beware of the pirates and angry tiger.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Beloved, bestselling creators Mac Barnett and Adam Rex team up again, this time to reveal the nitty gritty process of making a book...with a few unexpected twists along the way!</b> <p/>You may think you know how this book was made, but you don't. Sure, the author wrote many drafts, and the illustrator took a long time creating the art, but then what? How'd it get into your hands? Well, open the cover and read through these pages to find out. Just beware of the pirates and angry tiger. Budding writers and artists will laugh at the mix of reality and the absurd as the story makes its way to a shelf...and eventually, to a reader. <p/><b>"Fans of these wacky creators will eat it up." --<i>School Library Journal</i></b> <br><b>Don't miss these other books by Mac Barnett!</b> <br><b><i>Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem <br>Chloe and the Lion <br>Rules of the House <br>Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) <br>Oh No! Not Again! (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History)</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Barnett and Rex, no strangers to metafiction, have outdone themselves in terms of tongue-in-cheekiness... Young audience members will love every over-the-top moment."--<i><b>The Horn Book</b></i><br><br>"From the mixed-media cover art to the closing tiger-print endpapers, Barnett and Rex's surreal digressions and visual humor ensure that the tale will not follow a straightforward course. (At one point, illiterate pirates hijack the story for a single spread before vamoosing because they don't read.).... The joke density in a volume that includes an arm-wrestling tiger and Ben Franklin scaling Philadelphia's city hall like King Kong will keep many readers flipping the pages.... This quirky exercise in self-reflexiveness offers a nugget of truth about the laborious process of producing books. Fans of these wacky creators will eat it up."--<i><b>School Library Journal</b></i><br><br>"Rex's mixed-media illustrations keep up with the text and pack in plenty of chuckles."--<i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mac Barnett</b> is the author of many books for children, including<i> Extra Yarn</i>, illustrated by Jon Klassen, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; <i>The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse</i>, a <i>New York Times </i>bestseller; <i>Sam and Dave Dig a Hole</i>, a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the E. B. White Read Aloud Award. Other titles include <i>The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, Chloe and the Lion, How This Book Was Made, Count the Monkeys, </i>and<i> Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem</i>. He is the co-author, with Jory John, of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling series<i> The Terrible Two</i>. Mac lives in California. <p/><b>Adam Rex</b> is the multi-talented author of books for children, middle readers and young adults, as well as an accomplished illustrator. He has written such beloved picture books as <i>School's First Day of School</i> (illustrated by Christian Robinson), has created both pictures and words for favorites like <i>Are You Scared, Darth Vader?, Nothing Rhymes with Orange, </i>and<i> Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich</i>; and he has illustrated books by bestselling authors like <i>The Legend of Rock Scissors Paper</i> by Drew Daywalt, <i>Chloe and the Lion </i>by Mac Barnett, and <i>Chu's Day</i> by Neil Gaiman. <i>The True Meaning of Smekday</i> was his first novel, followed by <i>Smek for President! </i>and other books for middle and teen readers. He grew up in Phoenix, got a BFA from the University of Arizona, and now lives in Tucson.
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