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A man whom Pett has drawn in his own image tells readers that, as the book's author-illustrator, he gets to do all the writing and illustrating. Regardless, the panda he draws proceeds to color on the page, add text, and insert paper engineering (Pett: "NO POP-UPS!"). The batting average of the kid-lit "meta" craze improves with this witty, clever book.