Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard, illustrated by Lauren Child, came out this week published by Oxford University Press.

I’ve made a series of short films about Lauren’s working process and why she is fascinated by Pippi and Lindgren’s books. The third film features yours truly and we discuss the approach to designing the book, particularly the planning and working with the typography. Lauren’s ideas for making her illustrations integrate with the type and decisions on what and what not to include in a long-form book are discussed.

And you get to see inside the studio where she does all this stuff.

Available at all good bookstores.