We're making a new children's book: Here's how we do it

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We're making our fifth children's book, and it's the most Parisian one yet. In fact, there are some major changes to this one, so we decided to open the curtain and show you how we do them.

Lina talks about her illustrating process and I talk about how I wrote this one - and why I changed the whole style.

You can find our other four children's books in all the Anglophone bookshops of Paris, but also in le Peloton cafe, the Ile Aux Fees boutique, the Bon Marché department store, and Messy Nessy's cabinet of curiosities. Also the Louvre museum and the musée d'Orsay.

The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, an original called Walk a Giraffe.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, Oliver here from the Earful Tower, and have I got news for you?
0:05.2	We're going to take you on a journey.
0:07.7	My co- Journey tour guide is Lina Nongi sitting right across from me.
0:12.8	Hello.
0:13.7	Are you ready to take these people on a journey?
0:15.7	I am.
0:16.3	The journey is how to make a children's book set in Paris, in Paris, from pen to paper.
0:26.4	To book.
0:27.7	To your bookshelf.
0:29.2	Exactly.
0:30.0	The idea is this, we're in the process of the fifth one, and usually we're really quiet about our children's books until the day
0:37.5	they're ready. But we figured now that this is number five, now that we know what we're doing,
0:41.8	we wanted to take you behind the scenes and show you what's going on along the way. And I think it
0:47.2	could be, I think it could be fun for people to see how these things happen. And this episode is the
0:52.7	introduction to book number five.
0:54.8	Are you ready?
0:55.7	I am.
0:56.4	Well, let's do it.
1:14.4	Music by Press Maxim Maxon, as always.
1:18.0	Now, you might have noticed there was no talk of sponsors or anything.
1:19.2	No, not this time. We could say that our books are the sponsors of this episode.
1:23.3	So theafertower.com slash shop is where you can get all the other books,
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