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Rome Antics 3 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1997
The perfect engagement gift!
Share David MacAuley's obviously personal portrait of Rome. It's a portrait in the most obvious sense: lovingly detailed drawings of Rome's greatest architecture captured from MacAuley's witty and often weird perspective. But, through the drawings and the wonderful conceit, you see that this little book is also a personal exploration of a city that touches the heart.
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The New Way Things Work34 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1998
Ingenuity. Imagination. Depictions. Diagrams.
Put these four things together--ingenuity, imagination, depictions, diagrams-- and you have a double ID toward understanding how things work. David Macaulay and Neil Ardley put together a magnificent volume for children and children at heart containing a way of understanding the laws of physics and mechanics.
The first illustration even shows God busy creating the rotation of the earth. Then ...
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction18 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1983
A Ground Breaking Book
When David Macaulay published this book in 1974, he was following in the path of the great American illustrators Edwin Tunis and Eric Sloane. They produced many memorable history books for young adults in the years following the Second World War. Tunis and Sloane blended well written history with well done pen and pencil illustrations. "City" follows the standard convention of beginning with a ...
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Motel of the Mysteries30 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1979
this book is a "scream!"
When this book first was published, the Hotel Technology department head inadvertently had the college library purchase this book for the department. When it arrived we laughed hysterically about it, and many times, I have laughed about it ever since.
Two years ago, I ordered a copy for the library where I am currently a Children's Librarian. It did not even make it to the "stacks", someone
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Black and White16 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2005
My opinion: The most creative of the Caldecotts
David Macaulay is known for his architectural books: Pyramid, Castle, and City: a Story of Roman Planning and Construction and their accompanying videos. However, this Caldecott winner is a demonstration of that soaring Macaulay imagination!
Macaulay posts this warning right on the title page: "This book appears to contain a number of stories that do not necessarily occur at the same time. ...
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Pyramid 13 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1982
David Macaulay has done it again
Following in the tradition of other terrific books about complex construction projects using simple technology - such as Castle and Cathedral - Macaulay introduces children to the pyramids of ancient Egypt. And once again he hits a homerun, with a storyline that's just informative enough to create context but simple enough for young children to follow. Oh, did I mention the outstanding ...
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Castle24 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1982
Fascinating Book
After reading this book, I gave it to my grandson for Christmas and he is enjoying it very much. It is interesting not only to him but to his father as well. It really makes history and social progress come alive.
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Underground9 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1983
Great Visual Imagination and Wit
Most book illustrators portray buildings from an eagle's eye perspective. A few talented illustrators will open up the buildings and give insightful cross sectional views. What makes this book so special is that David Macaulay shows us buildings from the perspective of looking up from the bedrock on which the building rests. This is unique and is typical of Macaulay's great visual imagination ...
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Building Big7 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2000
Awesome
Macaulay fans are going to be amazed and impressed by this, his best book yet. It's a companion to the PBS series that's better than the films! A must see and better yet, must buy.
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Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (Sandpiper)16 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1981
spellbinding for children and adults alike
Like all of Macaulay's architectural books, CATHEDRAL is ripe with vivid illustrations that are both enthralling and educational to behold. The drawings not only illustrate the cathedral's method of construction, but convey the presence and majesty of the space as well. One feels the dizzying height of the tower and the formidable strength of the foundation stones. I was always amazed at the ...
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Angelo6 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2006
Another Caldecott contender from Macaulay
Each day at work I have to read the new picturebooks that have been proccessed. I dislike few of them. I enjoy most of them. I love very few of them...especially on first perusal. "Angelo" is one of the very few. It's the story of the unlikely friendship between a master plasterer (Angelo) and a pigeon he dubs Sylvia. He finds her wounded on the ledge of a building he is restoring & takes her in ...
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Unbuilding (Sandpiper)4 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1987
Read this now.
This is a highly unlikely story. But it is rich with detail, and the author's drawings are, as usual, incredible. The ending is the also a delight. This is one you will buy for your kids but keep for yourself
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Carpentry for Children1 review
Lester R. Walker
Overlook TP, 1985
"A good book" by David Stull, age 14
Carpentry for Children, by Les Walker is an incredible book with enlightening and challenging projects that will delight children for hours upon hours
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The Way Things Work1 review
David Macaulay, Neil Ardley
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2004
Perfect for reading in small bites
The Way Things Work is a charming, illustrated guide to the physical world for those of us who are both curious and a bit undereducated. The charm comes from Maccaulay's illustrations and his adorable choice of mammoths (that's right, mammoths) as the foils for the slightly jocular explanations.
Most of the explanations are good, a few are downright ingenious. It's true that a couple of ...
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Mill7 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1989
To Whole Cloth
This is an important book. Written for children, it can be used just as effectively by adults to comprehend the beginnings of the industrial revolution in the United States. Learn and see how men tamed our rivers and how men, women and children were swallowed up in these great monuments to progress. The illustrations are remakable. David Macaulay deftly describes and illustrates how the ...
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Shortcut4 reviews
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1999
Adults like this as much as the kids
I have been reading this book aloud to small groups of children for about three years. And every time I pull it out, I discover yet another clue, hiding in plain sight in the illustrations. The story starts deceptively simple: Arnold and his horse June take their melons to market. But soon, more characters enter, and my young audience (and older listeners) is challenged to keep them all ...
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Ship3 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1995
Like "Connections" only a book
It's hard to be enthusiastic enough about a book like this. I like the subjects (Archeology, Ship Building, historical research, fascinating stories) and the presentation style, but most of all I like how the author makes connections and inspires you to find more information about things that you suddenly feel as if you never appreciated enough. His other books are similar - "City", "Cathedral" ...
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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road3 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1987
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
This book is a knee-slapping take off of the classic "Why did the chicken cross the road?" kids joke. David Macaulay's hilarious book gives a behind -the-scenes look at the chain of events leading up to, or occurring as a result of that chicken crossing the road. Although the plot seems to go off on a tangent, the end has a twist that ties the story together. But some how he leaves you ...
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The Way Things Work 11 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1988
Still fun after all these years
I have loved David Macaulay's books since I was a kid. Though I've grown up, I am still facinated by his unique way of explaining things we take for granted. The Way Things Work is a road map for today's highly confusing and intimidating technological times. It allows you to gain a glimpse of the wonder of engineering, from the very simple, to the most complex.
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Mosque10 reviews
David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2003
Beautiful Illustrations, Informative
Beautiful illustrations, informative narrative about the construction of a Turkish mosque in context of its society and culture. Will help reader appreciate the majesty of Islamic architecture.
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