The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

by Patrick Dillon

Book Overview

Aspiring architects will be in their element Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself. We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763669903
• ISBN13: 9780763669904
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great book

Great book for both adult and kids