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David Macaulay

Autor(a) de Castle

76+ Works 25,485 Membros 403 Críticas 24 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Image credit: Wikipedia: David Macaulay at the Mazza Museum 2012 Fall Conference where he received the Mazza Medallion.

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Obras por David Macaulay

Castle (1977) — Autor — 3,165 exemplares
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (1973) — Autor — 2,892 exemplares
The Way Things Work (1988) 2,821 exemplares
Pyramid (1975) — Autor — 2,461 exemplares
The New Way Things Work (1998) 1,805 exemplares
Motel of the Mysteries (1979) 1,128 exemplares
Black and White (1990) 1,102 exemplares
Underground (1976) — Autor — 781 exemplares
Mosque (2003) 663 exemplares
The Way Things Work Now (2016) — Autor — 621 exemplares
Mill (1983) — Autor — 614 exemplares
Building Big (2000) — Autor — 582 exemplares
Ship (1993) 534 exemplares
Unbuilding (1980) — Autor — 492 exemplares
Rome Antics (1997) 369 exemplares
Built to Last (2010) 301 exemplares
Angelo (2002) 296 exemplares
Great Moments in Architecture (1978) 277 exemplares
Shortcut (1995) 232 exemplares
Castle: How It Works (My Readers) (2012) 187 exemplares
Toilet: How It Works (2013) 163 exemplares
Building the Book Cathedral (1999) 134 exemplares
Baaa (1985) 133 exemplares
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road (1987) 129 exemplares
Eye: How It Works (My Readers) (2013) 119 exemplares
How Machines Work: Zoo Break! (2015) — Autor — 81 exemplares
Cathedral [1986 documentary] (1995) — Host — 22 exemplares
Roman City [1994 documentary] (1994) — Host — 15 exemplares
The Way Things Work Kit (2000) 15 exemplares
Castle [1983 documentary] (1983) — Host — 14 exemplares
Building Big: Bridges [2000 TV episode] (2000) — Host — 10 exemplares
Monster Machines (1998) 9 exemplares
Mill Times [2001 documentary] (2006) — Host — 9 exemplares
Pyramid [1988 documentary] (1995) — Host — 6 exemplares
Building Big: Tunnels [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 5 exemplares
Building Big: Domes [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 5 exemplares
Building Big: Dams [2000 TV episode] (2000) — Host — 4 exemplares
Way Things Work game — Autor — 3 exemplares
The way things work. Pulleys (2002) 3 exemplares
The Way Things Work Lab Pack, (1994) 3 exemplares
The road to Rome (2000) 2 exemplares
Pinball Science (1998) 2 exemplares
Building Big: Skyscrapers [2000 TV episode] (2004) — Host — 2 exemplares
Cathedral 1 exemplar
TWTW CALENDAR 92 (1991) 1 exemplar
Light [movie] 1 exemplar
Life as a tree 1 exemplar
Slik virker det! (1996) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Ilustrador — 764 exemplares
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Artista da capa — 342 exemplares
Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (2000) — Contribuidor — 332 exemplares
The Amazing Brain (1984) — Ilustrador — 147 exemplares
Help! Let me out! (1982) — Ilustrador — 6 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 8, April 1978 (1978) — Artista da capa — 5 exemplares

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I love this "How It Works" series by Macaulay. A perfect level of detail for K-2.
 
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LibrarianDest | 2 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
You can't always believe a blurb, but I'm gonna say Macaulay has totally earned the "master explainer" title. I'm very impressed by his ability to take a complicated subject and break it down into understandable parts for young readers. The illustrations are great, too. I highly recommend this whole series!
 
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LibrarianDest | 3 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
It seems crazy, but this is four stories being told simultaneously. It doesn't completely make sense, but it's really fun and the kind of book you'll want to read over and over again. Definitely for the more sophisticated picture book crowd.
 
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LibrarianDest | 94 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
This is a clever little book that pokes fun at archaeological interpretations, particularly how quick they are to attribute items they aren't sure of to some sort of religious purpose. There are a lot of parallels to Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt, and the "archaeologist" of this book is in fact named Howard Carson.

In this generously illustrated book that takes place in the future, North America is already destroyed, having been buried beneath junk mail over 2,000 years ago. Howard stumbles upon an old motel room with a couple of bodies in them, and he interprets everything through a very wrong lens. The most base, disgusting, or mundane items become ceremonial and sacred (the bathroom is the inner sanctum, for example). Yet the items Howard finds are not only there to criticize fast, lazy answers in archaeology--they sometimes reflect poorly on modern priorities. For example, the TV was an altar and the remote a way to stay spiritually connected to it. They shine a light in the room to see not glints of gold, but glints of plastic.

Written in 1979, Motel of the Mysteries is fast becoming a relic itself and interestingly will need more and more interpretation itself. While most items it mentions still exist, some are obsolete and references are made to items that are less and less familiar to us (such as corded phones, the concept of banging on the top and sides of a TV to get it to work, and a list of old cars with animal names that are no longer produced). Yet it makes a timeless point and is so short I would have to consider it an essential archaeology book.
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Obras
76
Also by
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Membros
25,485
Popularidade
#820
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
403
ISBN
425
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
24

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