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Castle

In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of al...

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Main Author: Macaulay, David (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, [2013]
Edition: Full-color edition.
Subjects:
Castles > Juvenile nonfiction.
Fortification > Juvenile nonfiction.
City and town life > Juvenile nonfiction.
Occupations > Juvenile nonfiction.
Military engineering > Juvenile nonfiction.
Architecture > Juvenile nonfiction.
Wales > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity.
Item Description: "The text of this book is set in Times New Roman and Berkeley Oldstyle"--t.p. verso.
Physical Description: 76, [4] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Awards: Caldecott Honor Book, 1978.
ISBN: 9780544102262 (hardcover)
0544102266 (hardcover)
Author Notes: David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973.

His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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