How Do You Make That?
In this book, ten factories open up their doors for once. Pieter Gaudesaboos and Bart Rossel invite young readers to step into a cable car in which they are all carried through factories making fireworks or dolls. You discover how paint or soap is made and see tennis balls or Christmas baubles roll off the production line. You have a front-row seat to watch coins being stamped out of a sheet of copper before disappearing in a flash into a bank vault. From the cable car you can almost taste the chocolate, cornflakes or chewing gum being manufactured in front of your eyes.
Sometimes the very best books originate at the interface between fiction and nonfiction.****De Standaard
Gaudesaboos and Rossel show how ten objects are made, each time in eight clear steps. The introduction to every object places it in a historical framework, and each chapter ends with a double page filled with fun facts. While the text sticks to reality, the pictures steal the show with their playfulness and fantasy; the factories run flat out to produce everyday and familiar objects. The sparkling colours, delightful compositions, humour and rich details in the illustrations hold your attention throughout, and you can think up new stories for the recurring characters. The book ends with a look at the process of making the book itself, from the very start to the conquest of the hearts of its readers at home and abroad.
This would have been my favourite book when I was 10. Actually it is now too, at the age of 53!Jan Paul Schutten
A book to share with all dreamers, thinkers and doers.Mappalibri
