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Castle
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A 1978 Caldecott Honor Book
The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.
The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.
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Castle
Până la David Macaulay
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A 1978 Caldecott Honor Book
The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.
The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man? With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.
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Very informational on the history, construction, and design of a castle in Medieval Times. A great source for children interested in this period of time or as a source in the classroom during a period study. Appropriate for children in grades 1-6. Highly recommended as a source of history and as a general information book.
Rating: 5I thought it was okay. I'm not a huge architecture person, and I must admit I didn't read it with a lot of focus. The illustrations are awesome.
Rating: 2The text in this book is interesting, but it is the detailed illustrations that hold my attention. For children interested in architecture or history or what life used to be like or drawing or...lots of other things, this book would be a good friend.
Rating: 5Wonderfully detailed line drawings with explanations of why castle builders designed their buildings that way. Not just for children. A resource for architectural afficianado, historical novelist and/or D&D gamer.
Rating: 5A step by step view of a castle being erected with amazingly detailed illustrations showing everything from turrets to toilets.Children's InformationalI remember this book from my own childhood. Macaulay's series of architectural books, with their rich facts and exquisite drawings hold up now, 20 years later. It's just so engaing to follow the process and see all the extra details.I feel like Macaulay's books are a must have for every classroom. He does what no one else does and takes a history of building and makes it technical and accessible. There is so much to learn here.
Rating: 5I love this guys work
Rating: 5Castle is a children's picture book--but it's a children's picture book that was good enough to get made into a History Channel documentary. It was a runner up for the Caldecott Medal, the most prestigious award given annually for the best illustration of a children's book.Castle details the construction of a castle at the fictional North Welsh town of Aberwyvern as part of King Edward I's famous strategy of cementing his conquest of Wales by building a series of massive, impregnable castles throughout the strategic points of the Welsh countryside, supported by colonies of English artisans planted within their walls.Castle's story is told through beautiful, crisp pencil drawings and cutaway diagrams, and through text that, while easily understandable to its intended audience, does not talk down to children in any way and therefore remains succinct and informative to adult readers. From the initial selection of the river headland on which the castle is to be built, we follow the early stages of the construction of the keep, the arrival of the English colonists, the building of the town wall extending out from the keep to enclose the small town the colonists build in the keep's shadow and protect it from the hostile native Welsh, the castle and town's trial by fire as it must withstand a siege from a rebellious Welsh prince, and, eventually, Aberwyvern's fate as a bustling market town in mediaeval Wales, where Welsh and English both pass freely through the town gates, by which time the castle has fallen into disuse and is used as a quarry by townsmen seeking to build sturdier houses and shops.It's often said that the best way for someone who's curious about a particular historical time period to learn about it is to get a children's book on the period--a good children's book will give you a clear, concise overview, explaining the basics and showing you enough that you'll know what areas you want to research more. When people give you that advice, Castle is the sort of children's book they're talking about.
Rating: 5David Macaulay's Castle has been around since 1977, like an old castle it continues to have timeless appeal and will be a fixture in the reading landscape for generations. Castle architecture is a complex business and Macaulay chisels away at some of the interesting features, it's not as complex as Cathedral or Mill (my favorite), but accessible to young readers and interesting enough for adults. The fictional back-story restores important context that is often lost when looking at historical buildings: castles were built for a particular purpose, by a certain person, at a particular time -- having long outlived those times and people, they remain in our lives as permanent reminders of fleeting mortality.
Rating: 43.5 stars. England is building a castle and surrounding town in Wales in the 13th century, and Macaulay explains and uses illustrations to show how the castles and towns were built. He tells a little story to go along with the explanation. The illustrations are very, very good and do a fantastic job of pictorially showing what he is explaining in the text. It’s very interesting to learn about how these castles were built and why they were designed as they were.
Rating: 3Castle is the story of building a castle and town in late-13th-century England. While I thought Macaulay's Cathedral was excellent on architecture, I wanted more context, and here he includes both. There are fabulous drawings, in perspectives from bird’s-eye to worm’s-eye and everything in between. And there’s background about the purpose of a castle (i.e. military, and not just defensive [to “resist direct attack and withstand a siege”] but also offensive [strategic “placement along important supply and communication routes” e.g. in the conquest of Wales]) and the purpose of the accompanying town (to “provide a variety of previously unavailable social and economic opportunities” that would benefit both the English and eventually the Welsh and promote peace). Excellent!
Rating: 5I reread this book after nearly ten years; it remains a brilliant educational and entertaining book. Macaulay once more uses his plot device of describing a fictional edifice, this being a kind of Platonic ideal of the Crusader-era medieval castle, framed within proper historical conflict of England’s conquest of Wales in the Thirteenth Century. We see the castle itself, the city walls, and a thriving town rise from it’s foundations in these pages with delightful and realistic illustrations. Young readers will enjoy learning how much effort and difficulty goes into the construction, and the details of how it’s inhabitants lived and how the fortress is defended.If I could find one complaint it is how he speaks of the conflict in rather glossy terms, describing the inevitable way the welsh will mix with the English and how both will benefit from the stability the castle and it’s new associated town provide. Reality is far bloodier, but he does do us the favor of depicting the violence of welsh revolts in an exciting way that will draw in young readers.
Rating: 5