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How a Bear Became a Book, a perfect book on partners, production and Pooh

A book doesn’t have arms. It can’t hug you. How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaborations That Created Winnie-the-Pooh does have the aura of a comforting hug. It’s the smell of a kitchen after Snickerdoodles have just been made. The very subtle off-kilter letters in the book’s title evoke a playful nature. This aspect is magnified by the translucent bear running across the pages of a book, whose words are jumbled, incomplete, and utterly Pooh-esque.

How This Was Made meets classic children’s literature in How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh that’s as entertaining as it is educational, without trying to be the latter.

You won’t say “oh bother” while reading this book

Call Me Moby, big art for a whale of a tale in this very funny story

Call Me Moby was entirely unexpected. It has allusions to a story that most high school students won’t read, yet its inspiration is from a classic book. The illustrations in Call Me Moby don’t care about any of that. Its playful cover, with a massive, friendly white whale jumping over a tiny ship, will bring in young audiences as if they were a hungry bass looking at a bloodworm dangling from a hook.

Call Me Moby, an illustrated allusion on the most famous whale in literature, uses big, happy art and succinct text to tell a tale about being yourself.

Call Me Moby, the illustrated book, through a funny, allusion-filled lens

For pre-school girls it’s a Rainbow Rangers world, now they can read it too

If you’re a preschool girl then it’s a Rainbow Ranger world and your parents simply live in it, or occasionally interrupt it to ask you to turn off the TV. Parents like the show because it has nothing but positive themes and young girls will like it because the characters are smart, solve problems and have flying unicorns. If you’re a literary parent then the world of Rainbow Rangers might be new to you the MacKids is out to change all of that. They’ve printed four books that will appeal to children aged one through six.

Rainbow rangers, if you have a girl in pre-school then you know