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misspippireads's review against another edition
4.0
The title, Dreaming Up: a Celebration of Building, describes this picture book well. One side of the page features an illustration a child or children building with toys or objects. On the opposite page is a photograph of an amazing piece of architecture. The end of the book shares small paragraphs about the building and the builder. For storytime, I only highlighted the page with the building blocks since that was our theme. For the next storytime, I read the pages about building with cups, mud pies, boxes, wood blocks, “legos”, cardboard, and pillows.
2017 storytime theme: building blocks
2017 storytime theme: building blocks (Build a Better World summer)
Reviewed from a library copy.
2017 storytime theme: building blocks
2017 storytime theme: building blocks (Build a Better World summer)
Reviewed from a library copy.
jaij7's review against another edition
5.0
Wow! I really liked this building book with everyday materials; think Legos and playing cards, and then connecting it to a real photograph of an architectural masterpiece.
lannthacker's review against another edition
2.0
Not my cup of tea, but it's a nice illustration of different architectural styles and building materials. The rhyming text starts out promising but fizzles. Lots of classroom potential here though.
pacifickle's review against another edition
3.0
My second grade students were mesmermized (unexpectedly, admittedly) by how the young children's blocks matched to the actual architecture featured in the book, which also matched the concrete poems about the architecture. The back matter was especially fascinating to them- we flipped back and forth to get information about the real buildings, what the architect looked like, and in which country it was built.
garnetofeden's review against another edition
5.0
I like how the text's formatting reflects the architecture being highlighted, and that at the end there are sketches of each of the architects and a quote from them.
Rating reviewed 1/21/2023.
Rating reviewed 1/21/2023.
rdyourbookcase's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the comparison between the kids’ projects and great architecture. Great architecture had to start somewhere. I just wish the pictures would have been labeled in addition to the extra information in the back.
cstoeger's review against another edition
5.0
Combines drawings of children with actual photographs of architectural marvels. Some pages are reminiscent of concrete poetry, using different fonts and word placement. Also provides background at the end for the different buildings and architects featured in the book. Overall a GREAT read. Perfect for those reluctant boy readers.
megatsunami's review against another edition
5.0
So awesome! Images of children building with blocks, sand, and other materials are juxtaposed with famous architecture that mirrors their construction. Loved this.
pandacat42's review against another edition
3.0
You have to read sideways and guess the reading direction on a page or two. Other than that I think it's a great way to build a child's creativity! :)
crystal_reading's review against another edition
5.0
The thought that went into this book amazes me. The book highlights some amazing architecture. What sets the book apart though, is that for every structure, there is a mixed media illustration of young children creating a similar structure with everyday materials such as stacking cubes, legos, mud or even the cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls. There is also a concrete poem that also speaks of the children's creations while it gives the reader another way to imagine or "see" the shapes that make up the two structures. There are four layers to the book: the photographs, the artist's illustrations, the text, and the shape of the text. Tracing the many shapes was a lot of fun and young readers will want to get out their building materials and get to it. This was also a multicultural work. The authors chose works from all over the world and there is a diverse group of young people in the illustrations. I was glad to see that there was a mix of both boys and girls too.
Sometimes as an adult reading to a young child, I wish that the authors provided more information in simple non-fiction texts. Happily, I discovered that there are fantastic endnotes. They included brief, but interesting biographies of the architects and details about each work of architecture. Two of the fourteen were female, but there is a gender imbalance in that profession so this may just be a reflection of that reality. I loved this book and will definitely be adding it to our collection to inspire our future engineers and architects.
Original review http://readingtl.blogspot.com/2013/05/picture-book-party.html
Sometimes as an adult reading to a young child, I wish that the authors provided more information in simple non-fiction texts. Happily, I discovered that there are fantastic endnotes. They included brief, but interesting biographies of the architects and details about each work of architecture. Two of the fourteen were female, but there is a gender imbalance in that profession so this may just be a reflection of that reality. I loved this book and will definitely be adding it to our collection to inspire our future engineers and architects.
Original review http://readingtl.blogspot.com/2013/05/picture-book-party.html