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The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

10 best books like The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond (Patrick Dillon): Can We Save the Tiger?, Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph, Harlem Hellfighters, The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece, The Year of the Fortune Cookie, Escape Under the Forever Sky, Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like?, Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama

Can We Save the Tiger?
AuthorMartin Jenkins
ISBN0763649090
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.

Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
AuthorRoxane Orgill
ISBN0763669547
What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment for American jazz.

When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched...
Harlem Hellfighters
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN1568462468
"Lewis's poetics are perfectly complemented by Kelley's evocative pastel illustrations, which both inspire and unsettle." –New York Times

They went by many names, but the world came to know them best as the Harlem Hellfighters. Two thousand strong, these black Americans from New York...
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
AuthorJeanette Winter
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017
Parents’ Choice Recommended

Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect’s life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.

Zaha Hadid grew up...
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1426311087
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.

When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece
AuthorMarc Harshman
ISBN1596437189
In the wooded heart of Pennsylvania, a house perches atop a waterfall. The water's tune echoes through its sunlit-dappled rooms, and the façade blends effortlessly into the rock and forest behind it. This is Fallingwater, an architectural masterpiece born from the marriage of meticulous research...
The Year of the Fortune Cookie
AuthorAndrea Cheng
ISBN0544105192
Eleven-year-old Anna heads off to sixth grade, leaving the comfort and familiarity of elementary school behind and entering the larger, more complex world of middle school. Surrounded by classmates who have their roots all in America, Anna begins to feel out of place and wonders where she really belongs. ...
Escape Under the Forever Sky
AuthorEve Yohalem
Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her...
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like?
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0547991347
No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what color dinosaurs were? Or if their flesh was scaly or feathered? Could that fierce T.rex have been born with spots? In a first for...
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
AuthorHester Bass
ISBN0763669199
Explore a little-known story of the Civil Rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.

Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening...
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0544233514
Dear  axolotl: Why do you have feathers growing out of your head? Axolotl: They aren't feathers—they're gills! They let me breathe underwater.
Let's face it. Even as babies, we humans pay close attention to faces. Observing another person's features and expressions tells us whether they...
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature
AuthorSarah C. Campbell
ISBN1620916274
Nature’s repeating patterns, better known as fractals, are beautiful, universal, and explain much about how things grow. Fractals can also be quantified mathematically. Here is an elegant introduction to fractals through examples that can be seen in parks, rivers, and our very own backyards....
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
AuthorJoseph D'Agnese
ISBN0805063056
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.

When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
Earthquake Shock
AuthorMarlane Kennedy
When disaster strikes, the only thing you can count on is yourself!

It had seemed like the perfect California day. But as Joey Flores walked home from the skate park with his friends, the ground began to tremble, and Joey knew they were headed for trouble....

The earthquake that followed...
National Geographic Kids Weird but True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts
AuthorNational Geographic Kids
ISBN1426314906
I really like learning new things from a "children's book!"

This was a very entertaining, and lavishly illustrated, book of trivia!

Please enjoy these little trivia gems!

A. "Some dogs are allergic to cats!

B. Borborygmus is the word, for the rumbling sound in your...
Cleared for Takeoff
AuthorJulia DeVillers
ISBN1416991301
When your father is the President of the United States, and you've taken your own oath to represent the kids of America . . . well, that's a lot of responsibility for one girl. Luckily, Liberty Porter is up to the job! There's no problem too big or too small that can't be solved with a visit to the White House...
Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late
AuthorLaura Overdeck
ISBN1250035856
Our mission: to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives.

We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many generations of Americans are uncomfortable with math and numbers, and too often we hear the phrase, "I'm just not good at math!" For decades,...
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
AuthorGail Jarrow
ISBN1629797766
Gail Jarrow explores the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. She highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath, and the repercussions which remain relevant today.

On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they...
The Periodic Table: Elements with Style!
AuthorSimon Basher
ISBN0753460858
The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the elements as it's never been seen before. Designed to resemble popular networking Web sites, the pages of this book feature "homepages" for each of the chemical elements -- complete with witty and informative profiles written by the...
The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618496416

Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.

The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
The Period Book: A Girl's Guide to Growing Up
AuthorKaren Gravelle
ISBN0802777368
The essential guidebook for every girl.

The Period Book is a reassuring must-read for every girl about to have her period, and every parent wishing to prepare a daughter for this important milestone. With more than 300,000 copies sold, The Period Book stands out from the pack by specifically...
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0547821832
In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's...
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