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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2012 | Nonfiction
K-Gr 3–A clever introduction to architecture. Each spread shows children playing on one side and a photograph of a famous building on the other. The children, done with watercolor in a fairly standard illustrative style, are pictured working with toys that mirror the form of the featured buildings. For example, a baby’s stacking rings are shown opposite the Guggenheim Museum, and wooden blocks mirror t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2012
Building -- with blocks or sand, sticks or other improvisatory materials -- is one of childhood's most entertaining forms of play. Here, fifteen such play building projects are deftly rendered in mixed-media collage and paired with photos of iconic buildings that look like they could have been inspired by imaginative children's constructions. A toddler's upside-down stack of graduated plastic doughnuts resembles Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum; a "pillow fort" mim...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Fifteen childhood building projects are deftly rendered in concrete poems and mixed-media collages, each paired with a photo of an iconic b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
