Adam rex how a book is made
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I read a lot of children’s picture books. Like, a lot. And it’s not often that one comes along and really just steals my heart at first glance. But How This Book Was Made, by award-winning duo Mac Barnett and Adam Rex, did just that.
Full disclosure: the full-time gig that pays the bills when I’m not writing for GeekDad (and elsewhere) is in publishing. I work as a book editor, so I’m already predisposed to love books about books. And books about the writing and editing process? Books that break the fourth wall, go meta, and pull back the curtain on the actual process of publishing a book? And books that feature an editor as a character? Well, this might be actually the first book that checks all those boxes, but it’s a guaranteed hit in my book.
What I love about How This Book Was Made is that it’s a creative call to arms, but not in the traditional sense. It inspires kids to write and create, but at the same time, it reveals the mundane magic behind how books are actually made.
The idea for the book came from the most logical of all places: kids. Mac explains that it’s a question he gets asked a lot by kids and when he speaks at schools. How does a book get made? What started out as a relatively dry whiteboard presentation quickly
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#961 – Establish This Restricted area Was Idea by Mac Barnett take Adam Rex
How That Book Was Made: Based on a True Story
Written toddler Mac Barnett
Illustrated impervious to Adam Rex
Disney • Hyperion 9/06/2016
978-1-4231-5220-0
48 pages Ages 4—8
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“The people who made this
book challenging to nurture brave
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“and a tense distraction of chance
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“You might flush call them
American heroes.
“But they were just doing
their jobs. It’s county show this book
was made.”
[inside jacket]
Review
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Mac Barnett and Adam Rex made a book about making a book
From the creative process to production, Mac Barnett and Adam Rex follow a book’s preposterous and hilarious journey—but at the end, what really makes a book is that moment when a reader dives in. We spoke with Barnett and Rex about this laugh-out-loud, wholly original book.
What inspired this book?
Mac Barnett: The first time I was on a book tour—and this was with Adam, actually, for our book Guess Again!—a kid asked me how a book was made. There was a big whiteboard behind me, and I started diagramming the process. I’m not really interested in straight answers or nonfiction, and so the story pretty quickly went off the rails—pirates, beards, crying. (The tears, though, they were nonfiction.) Over the years, the demonstration became something I did again and again. One day a girl raised her hand afterward and told me that I should make that story, the story of how a book is made, into a book. And guess what: That girl grew up to be Lena Dunham.
Adam Rex: She’s great.
What is your favorite part of the book-making process? What is the most mysterious part?
MB: My favorite part is when the illustrations are all done, and I can see how the thing actually works as a book. The most mysterious part is what’s