- Juvenile literature, Castles, Fortification, Design and construction
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
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Cool, plot-driven, warm and resolved.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- David Macaulay
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 74
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, Trumpet Club
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395257845
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“On March 27, 1283, King Edward I of England named Kevin le Strange to be Lord of Aberwyvern - a rich but rebellious area of northwest Wales.”
David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. Macaulay was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay
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