How this book was made : based on a true story / Mac Barnett, Adam Rex.

Title:

Author:

Barnett, Mac

Additional Author(s):

Rex, Adam

ISBN:

9781423152200

1423152204

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Info:

Los Angeles :

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

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.

Subject(s):

Books -- Juvenile fiction.

Publishers and publishing -- Juvenile fiction.

Authorship -- Juvenile fiction.

Holds: Copies (not including on-order items):

Available:*

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Summary

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!

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.

"Fans of these wacky creators will eat it up." -- School Library Journal

Don't miss these other books by Mac Barnett!

Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem

Chloe and the Lion

Rules of the House

Oh No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World)

Oh No! Not Again! (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History)

Author Notes

Mac Barnett is a New York Times bestselling author of books for children. His picture book Extra Yarn won a 2013 Caldecott Honor and the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels. He co-wrote Battle Bunny with Jon Scieszka which was a New York Times bestseller. Barnettt's book, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, illustrated by Jon Klassen, made the New York Times bestseller list in October 2014. It also won an E.B. White Read-Aloud Award 2015 in the picture book category.

(Bowker Author Biography)