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Upper Primary

The Book Factory

Series 2 : Lesson 11

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How books get made & who helps make them

What’s in the Video? 

A great idea is only the first step in the journey of a book – it takes a lot of people, with different skills and talents to bring a book to life! In this lesson, you’ll explore the world inside a publishing house, and learn about the people whose job it is to take a book from an idea, to a finished thing you can hold in your hand.


Video Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:23 Meet the creators

01:39 What is publishing?

04:03 What goes on behind the scenes?

06:00 Other steps to make a book

07:00 Final words of advice

08:44 Here’s what we’ve learned

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