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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A book filled with wonderful pictures and information describing how castles and the towns around them would be built. ( )This was one of my favorite books when I was younger. The pictures and the story captured my imagination. This is a very good book for all ages. My first Macaulay experience..........I came across this book in my school library when I was gathering resources for a Medieval Unit. Our art teacher was going to have students produce Castles from clay and so we went searching for books to give students ideas for their castles. This "story" is really just a vehicle to relate much information about castles: how they are made, what they contain, why things are as they are, what use are they to a town and to a far away king, and how they can be defended. The details are numerous, but because the book is told as a story, it is not dry...I am fascinated by drawings of "how things work" so I loved the book. I think anyone reading this book will be interested in the specifics of how castles work, and enjoy reading it because it is presented in story form. A good book for a school library. Amazingly detailed black and white drawings accompany informative and interesting information about a fictional medieval castle and town in Wales. Information includes how the castle was built, how the toilets functioned, and how a siege against the castle might play out. The reading level seemed more for adults than children, but I guess if the interest is high enough, kids will comprehend the info. This is one of a series of books about different topics by David Macaulay. no reviews | add a review
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