David Macaulay
David Macaulay, award-winning non-fiction author and illustrator, lived the first 11 years of his childhood in England before he and his family moved to New Jersey. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design after high school. He studied architecture-an influence that is easily seen in the pages of his work.
His children's books are often called "building books," as they focus on spectacular buildings and architecture. He says he was fascinated with machines and building things as a child and he tries to infuse his books with that fascination, illustrating how things work the way they do.
Macaulay's work has earned such awards as Caldecott Medals and Honors, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Christopher Awards, and several minor awards. He's twice been nominated for the Hans Christian Anderson Award and has even received a Bradford Washburn Award for contributions to science.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Way Things Work |
Ship |
Pyramid |
Mosque |
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction |
Great Moments in Architecture |
Motel of the Mysteries |
Unbuilding |
Castle |
Rome Antics |
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction |
Building the Book Cathedral |
Underground |
Baaa |
Building Big |
Shortcut |
The Amazing Brain |
Angelo |
Black and White |
Castle Castle |
Mill |
Why The Chicken Crossed the Road |
The New Way Things Work |
