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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Annelie Geissler
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Children’s picture books

DREAMING UP

Christy Hale

A Celebration of Building

A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.

Cup on cup s tacking up, smaller, smaller, and growing taller! Children building- Concrete poetry- Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children's constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures. Here is a unique celebration of children's playtime explorations and the surprising ways childhood experiences find expression in the dreams and works of innovative architects. Come be inspired to play-dream-build-discover! Christy Haleis the author and illustrator of several acclaimed children's books, including four published by Lee & Low, and she has illustrated numerous other award-winning picture books as well. Hale also works in the children's book field as an art director, a designer, and an educator, offering programs at schools, libraries, and museums. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California. You can learn more about her at christyhale.com.

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Book Published 2012-10-01 by Lee & Low

Comments

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

Christy Hale makes the connection from constructing with toys to actual buildings in Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building... Among the fifteen buildings featured are La Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Habitat 67 in Montréal, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. Pictures of these building[s], with information about them and the architects are at the end. Wonderful for browsing or developing an interest in architecture.

A clever introduction to architecture... This book is more accessible than J. Patrick Lewis's Monumental Verse (National Geographic, 2005) or a more factual text like Culture in Action: Architecture (Raintree, 2009) and is a good precursor for either of them. Read more...

Hale turns her educated eye to modern and contemporary architecture and produces a book that is at once groundbreaking, child-friendly and marvelously inclusive... This extraordinary new picture book masterfully tackles the complex task of contextualizing seemingly complex architectural concepts within a child's own world of play. Read more...

While lots of books show children how to play, this one suggests that using what's at hand to "dream up" new things is vital to creativity: as the book's epigraph says, "If they can dream it, they can build it." Read more...