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Make Believe

On Telling Stories to Children

Contributors

By Mac Barnett

Formats and Prices

On Sale
May 5, 2026
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668657096

Price

$14.99

Format

Format:

  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $14.99
  2. Hardcover $25.00 $33.00 CAD

From the newly appointed National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a timely and intimate meditation on the ways we think about and interact with children’s literature, and what that says about our opinions of children and childhood.

Mac Barnett

About the Author

Mac Barnett is the ninth U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, appointed by the Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader. He’s a New York Times-bestselling author of stories for children and the writer, with Jon Klassen, of Looking at Picture Books, a newsletter for adults about how picture books work. Barnett’s work has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. His books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award,Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil. Barnett lives in Oakland, California.

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