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Building the Book Cathedral

Amazon Price: $20.97
Hardcover - 112 pages (1999)

Synopsis:
Building the Book Cathedral includes the content of Cathedral in its entirety. Here Macaulay traces the evolution of his creative process in "building" that first book, from the initial concept to the finished drawings. He introduces the basic elements of structure and sequence and explains why one angle of a drawing may be better for conveying an idea than another. He describes how perspective, scale, and contrast can be used to connect a reader with concepts, and how placement of a picture on a page can make a difference in the way information is communicated.

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Castle

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 74 pages (1977)

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Cathedral: The Story of its Construction

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: All Ages
Hardcover - 77 pages (1973)

Synopsis:
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century.

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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 112 pages (1974)

Synopsis:
Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.

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Mill

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 128 pages (1983)

Synopsis:
Well researched, ambitious, and absorbing, this first-rate history lesson details the construction of a spinning mill with a good deal of social history interwoven.

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Pyramid

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 80 pages (1975)

Synopsis:
Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.

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Ship

Amazon Price: $13.97
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 96 pages (1993)

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Unbuilding

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 78 pages (1980)

Synopsis: 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.

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Underground

Amazon Price: $12.60
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 109 pages (1976)

Synopsis
Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.

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Baaa

Amazon Price: $9.77
School & Library Binding (1985)

Synopsis:
After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as man, and eventually they too disappear.

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Black and White

Amazon Price: $11.90
School & Library Binding - 32 pages (1990)

Synopsis:
A picture book that toys with the reader as it experiments with the concept of time, simultaneity of events, and the question of one story impinging on another. A free-wheeling and free-spirited escape from the ordinary.

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Rome Antics

Amazon Price: $12.60 Hardcover - 79 pages (1997)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

Synopsis:
As readers follow the path of a pigeon carrying an important message through the streets of Rome, they discover a fascinating city that has been recycling itself for more than 2,000 years.

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Shortcut

Amazon Price: $11.17
Hardcover - 79 pages (1997)
School & Library Binding - 64 pages (September 1995)

Synopsis:
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 ex-poses ordinary life as an intricate sequence of action and reaction.

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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road

Amazon Price: $16.00
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover - 79 pages (1997)
School & Library Binding - 31 pages (September 1987)

Synopsis:
By crossing a road, a chicken sets off a series of wild events, in which the Anderson twins blow up their bathroom and the brave young Hooper lad is rolled up and delivered inside an Oriental rug.

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Great Moments in Architecture

Amazon Price: $22.95
Hardcover - 116 pages (1978)

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Motel of the Mysteries

Amazon Price: $10.40
Paperback - 95 pages (1979)

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The New the Way Things Work

Amazon Price: $24.50
Hardcover - 400 pages Revised edition (1998)

Synopsis:
The New Way Things Work boasts a richly illustrated 80-page section that wrenches us all (including the curious, bumbling wooly mammoth who ambles along with the reader) into the digital age of modems, digital cameras, compact disks, bits, and bytes.

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