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Children's Reading List The Art of Construction

Easy Books

Elisha Cooper
Building
The process of construction,step by step, from clearing the site to cleaning up the finished building.

Ryan Ann Hunter
Cross a Bridge

Ryan Ann Hunter
Dig a Tunnel

Ryan Ann Hunter
Into the Sky
The history and construction of skyscrapers.

Sue Tarsky
The Busy Building Book
What happens on the construction site for a new office building.

Nonfiction Books

Malcolm Day
The World of Castles and Forts
J355.19

David Macaulay
Castle
J623.19

James Cross Giblin
Walls: Defenses Throughout History
J623.19
Discusses why and how walls have been constructed throughout history around cities, castles, even countries.

James E. Kelly
The Tunnel Builders
J624.19
Explains the many techniques used at various stages of building tunnels under streets and rivers or through mountains.

David Macauley
Underground
J624.19
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.

Polly Carter
The Bridge Book
J624.2

Scott Corbett
Bridges
J624.2

Carol A. Johmann
Bridges!: Amazing Structures to Design, Build & Test
J624.2

Elizabeth Mann
The Brooklyn Bridge
J624.2
Describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, from its conception by John Roebling in 1852 through, after many setbacks, its final completion under the direction of his son, Washington, in 1883.

Ken Robbins
Bridges
J624.2

Judith St. George
The Brooklyn Bridge: They Said it Couldn't Be Built
J624.2

Gail Gibbons
Up Goes the Skyscraper!
J690

David Mackay
The Building of Manhattan
J690

Dee Lillegard
I Can Be a Carpenter
J690.023

Elinor Lander Horwitz
How to Wreck a Building
J690.2
Chronicles the demolition of an old school.

David Macaulay
Unbuilding
J690.523
This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such as edifice would be demolished.

Gail Gibbons
How a House is Built
J690.837

Tom Birdseye
A Kids' Guide to Building Forts
J690.89

Ulli Steltzer
Building an Igloo
J693.91

Douglas Florian
A Carpenter
J694.092

Caselli Giovanni
Wonders of the World
J720
Discover the beauty and wonder of the most famous sights in the world, both ancient and modern.

David Macaulay
Building Big
J720
The connection between planning and designing structures (bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes and dams) and the solutions that are finally reached in building these architectural wonders. Look for the companion PBS videos in our collection at VHS J720!

Avery Hart
Pyramids! 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience Ancient Egypt
J932

Anne Millard
A Street Through Time
J936
Traces the development of one street from the Stone Age to the present day, from dirt track to the rebuilding of inns as wine bars, showing how people lived and what they did all day.

Philip Steele
Castles
J940.1

Elizabeth Mann
The Great Wall
J951
Examines the building of the Great Wall of China and the thousands of years of conflict that preceded it.

Leonard Everett Fisher
The Great Wall of China
J951.014
A brief history of the Great Wall of China, begun about 2,200 years ago to keep out the Mongol invaders.