HOW is a book made? How are paper and ink made?

What is a publishing house and what does it do?

What goes on at the printer’s and the bookbinder’s? And what impact does producing a book have on the environment?

Did you know that for every book produced a tree has to be cut? That making paper can be a heavily polluting procedure?

How have we come to make and buy books that you can scratch and sniff, that float in the bathtub or glow in the dark?

What does this all mean for our environment and what can we do to protect it?

This book contains not one but two texts!

— A very short one, for little readers but also for busy grownups;

— and a longer one, for those of us who want to learn more

about how a book is really made!