David Macaulay
2) Pyramid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
4) Castle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
5) Underground
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Formats
Description
This illustrated book gives young readers “a breathtaking and entirely original insight” into the complex systems that exist underneath modern cities (Kirkus, starred review).
Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay takes readers on a visual journey through a city's various support systems—the many tunnels, pipes, walls, and other structures that help...
Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay takes readers on a visual journey through a city's various support systems—the many tunnels, pipes, walls, and other structures that help...
7) Mosque
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, a remarkable look at how a sixteenth-century mosque would have been built, in words and pictures.
“Gorgeously illustrated . . . Macaulay is renowned for spectacular children’s books with an architectural flavor . . . Mosque is a superbly illustrated and technically engrossing explanation of how a great Turkish mosque...
“Gorgeously illustrated . . . Macaulay is renowned for spectacular children’s books with an architectural flavor . . . Mosque is a superbly illustrated and technically engrossing explanation of how a great Turkish mosque...
8) Rome Antics
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. Every time a corner is turned there is a surprise, just as every turn of the page brings a new perspective. This juxtaposition of ancient and modern, as seen with David Macaulay's ingenious vision, gives the reader an imaginative and
...10) Built to last
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edici�on.
Language
Español
Description
"From the interior of an atom to the solar system and beyond, the mammoths seek to understand the science! These intrepid science demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain. They wrestle with magnets to understand their powerful force, make mammoth models of different materials explore what gives them mass, and step into a X-ray machine to reveal the bones beneath their woolly exterior."--
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the interior of an atom to the solar system and beyond, the mammoths seek to understand the science! These intrepid science demonstrators will go to incredible lengths to educate and entertain. They wrestle with magnets to understand their powerful force, make mammoth models of different materials explore what gives them mass, and step into a X-ray machine to reveal the bones beneath their woolly exterior."--
14) Building big
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
15) Shortcut
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Albert and his trusty mare, June, set off early on market day to sell their melons in town, thus beginning a mysterious chain of events in a thought-provoking journey that exposes ordinary life as an intricate sequence of action and reaction.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
David Macaulay, co-creator of the international bestseller The Way Things Work, brings his signature curiosity and detailing to the story of the steamship in this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book.
Prior to the 1800s, ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean relied on the wind in their sails to make their journeys. But invention of steam power ushered in a new era of transportation that would change ocean travel forever: the steamship....
17) Baaa
Author
Language
English
Description
After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well.
18) Unbuilding
Author
Language
English
Description
This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.
19) Ship
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship's recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a story emerges - of the triumphant birth of the ship Magdalena from Spain, and its tragic voyage to a far-away continent.
