How This Book Was Made

Illustrated by Adam Rex

The people who made this book had to brave dangerous animals, an angry mob, unreasonable editorial demands, high-seas adventure, traffic, and a tense game of chance where EVERYTHING was on the line.

“I loved it. Kids reading this book will be fascinated…and they’ll be reassured that it takes a lot of work and patience to make any piece of literature.”

New York Times

“Barnett and Rex, no strangers to metafiction, have outdone themselves.”

The Horn Book

“Wildly comic.”

Booklist

“The mad geniuses behind Chloe and the Lion are back to push picture book metafiction to its hilarious limit.”

Huffington Post

Cover of How This Book Was Made, a children's book by Mac Barnett.

Inside the book