About Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
Looking at Picture Books is a Substack about how picture books work, made by two award-winning, bestselling children’s book authors, Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett. That’s us! Jon is on the left.
Picture books are real literature. The best ones are artworks as great as any books humans have made. But like all children’s literature, picture books are misunderstood and undervalued, a centuries-old problem we expect to have fixed after two or three posts.