Review: How This Book Was Made

How This Book Was Made by Mac Barnett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For a fuller explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. The Reviewers seemed to run correctly last week, but didn't run this week at all, and the Readers list hasn't been fixed at all. I guess algorithm don't care. Looking at the beta pages, algorithm loves stars.

Really I don't have anything to add to what I originally wrote. Still awesome. I still really love the MacAdam books. Metafiction in picture books is the best.

***

7 November 2016

We are longstanding Adam Rex fans, and I've enjoyed his previous work with Barnett, so yeah, I grabbed this off the library shelf. I'm not following a lot of children's book bloggers any more, so I'm not walking into the library with a list of items, I'm just taking whatever looks appealing on display or the New Shelf. Sometimes I recall someone we used to love and see what's on the shelf, but usually I find myself in a bookstore or library unable to recall the name of any author or the title of any book that I've ever enjoyed. Is that just me, or does it happen to other people, too? Or perhaps other people have other book-shopping quirks that I can't even imagine? Feel free to share. Anyway, Barnett breaks down the whole process of writing, illustrating, and publishing a book in a way that is both accurate and amusing, not least because of Rex's great art. I have no idea if kids in general would enjoy this, but certainly the already bookish ones would.


Library copy


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