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.”
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The New York Times
“Barnett and Rex, no strangers to metafiction, have outdone themselves.”
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The Horn Book
“Wildly comic.”
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Booklist
“The mad geniuses behind Chloe and the Lion are back to push picture book metafiction to its hilarious limit.”
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Huffington Post
Inside the book
