Lane Smith: It's a Book (2018, Pan Macmillan)
32 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2018 by Pan Macmillan.
Can it text? Blog? Scroll? Wi-fi? Tweet? No, it's a book. A donkey with a laptop computer and a gorilla with a printed book discuss the merits of their preferred formats. Playful and lighthearted with a subversive twist that is signature Lane Smith, It's a Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age. This satisfying, perfectly executed picture book has something to say to readers of all stripes and all ages. - Publisher.
Second best book of 2010. Clean, warm artwork. I dig the book-within-a-book. And the jackass' techno-centricity is a hoot and a half, and all too believable.
