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Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

Main Author:	Macaulay, David.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Subjects:	Literary recreations > Juvenile fiction. Puzzles > Juvenile fiction. Riddles > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.
Physical Description:	[32] p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Awards:	Caldecott Medal, 1991.
ISBN:	0395521513 9780395521519 0618636870 (pbk.) 9780618636877 (pbk.) 1415629102 (BWI bdg.) 9781415629109 (BWI bdg.)
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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