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Caution! Construction zone ahead! Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a big building going up — and who hasn't? — will be thrilled by this behind-the-scenes look at an amazing construction project.
Put on your hard hat and step inside CONSTRUCTION ZONE! Young readers are invited to come on a virtual tour of a building in progress, led by award-winning photographer Richard Sobol. It takes hundreds of workers, thousands of trucks and machines, and millions of nails and bolts to transform an idea on paper into an actual building in which people will live, play, shop, or work. Every single piece of the construction puzzle — big and small — must fit together flawlessly. With a clear, direct narrative and handy definitions of construction-related jobs, machines, and terms, Cheryl Willis Hudson distills this most complex of projects into language a young child can grasp. The building itself — the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank O. Gehry — is playful and colorful, sculpted to excite, delight, and surprise. Richard Sobol’s vivid color photographs capture all the excitement of the busy construction site, while offering a close-up view of its breathtaking genius.
Back matter includes an author’s note.
Download Construction Zone Cheryl Willis Hudson Richard Sobol 9780763693442 Books
"This is very well done. Cheryl Willis Hudson gives us something it's hard to find in truck books -- a well-written and interesting text. She uses the metaphor of a puzzle to describe all the different moving pieces that combine to create the finished work of art and architecture.
This is a book you will enjoy reading to your little boys over, and over, and over, and over again. Kids LOVE truck books -- this has the construction photographs they are interested in, coupled with page after page of simple, effective explanations.
The book highlights the three-year build of a student center at MIT. The finished building is really cool.
Don't miss this one. It will please the little truck fanatics AND the parents."
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Construction Zone Cheryl Willis Hudson Richard Sobol 9780763693442 Books Reviews :
Construction Zone Cheryl Willis Hudson Richard Sobol 9780763693442 Books Reviews
- The kids LOVE this!!!
- My grandson loves anything to do with construction equipment. Kids can enjoy the pictures now and learn more about building construction as they get older and read the text.
- Reason for Reading I am reading Richard Sobol's entire backlist with my son and discussing the life of a photographer/photojournalist as a career option while doing so.
Construction Zone is the only one of Richard Sobol's children's books which he did not write himself. Sobol spent 3 years documenting the building of MIT's Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences. Much of that work can be found in a book published by MIT itself. This book includes photos Sobol took during that assignment. The writing itself is written for a younger child than Sobol's own books and describes the work on a construction zone from architect to carpenters to masons to electricians and so on. It has a very easy to read narrative with definitions at the bottom of each page that will delight the youngest of readers, especially boys who love to hang around when they see local construction at work.
Sobol's photography is absolutely brilliant and makes the book suitable for browsing by anyone of any age. The Stata Center is one strange example of architecture and Sobol's fantastic photography make this the type of book to lay upon the coffee table for browsing. Ds especially enjoyed this book, compared to Sobol's other nature books. Since we are talking about career opportunities we were able to also discuss all the various construction related jobs depicted in the pictures. An excellent picture book for young children and a fun book to browse through for any age. - This is very well done. Cheryl Willis Hudson gives us something it's hard to find in truck books -- a well-written and interesting text. She uses the metaphor of a puzzle to describe all the different moving pieces that combine to create the finished work of art and architecture.
This is a book you will enjoy reading to your little boys over, and over, and over, and over again. Kids LOVE truck books -- this has the construction photographs they are interested in, coupled with page after page of simple, effective explanations.
The book highlights the three-year build of a student center at MIT. The finished building is really cool.
Don't miss this one. It will please the little truck fanatics AND the parents.
