Architecture, Colors
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Book Overview
A senior editor at Progressive Architecture and an award-winning architectural photographer come together to present four colorful board books that introduce the built environment to preschoolers. Architecture Counts consists of numbers from 0-10 such as two brackets, three dormers, five arches and six ducts. Architecture Shapes explores shapes through the composition and arrangement of windows. Architecture Colors looks at the entire building as well as several details to suggest nine colors including a red barn, green roofs and a white church. Architecture Animals is an excursion into the deepest, wildest, architectural jungles around. Contains 14 animals in their native habitats--crawling across building facades, perched on top of a skyscraper or lounging at the ocean shore. Each full-color photograph is accompanied by a rhyme that provides hints of the animal's location or history.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0471143596
ISBN13:9780471143598
Release Date:August 1993
Publisher:Wiley
Length:22 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 6.0"
Age Range:2 to 5 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Kindergarten
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
My favorite gift to give new babies!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I give this book to new parents all the time. I love the use of architectural elements. Its great for the adults reading it as well. Of course, I am an architect so my perspective may be skewed a bit. And the children of all of my architectural colleagues seem to enjoy it!
Bringing architecture to kids
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
As an architect, I enjoy giving these books as gifts because they are different from your run of the mill children's books. I like how they use building pieces to teach about basic shapes and colors. It is not a book that highlights popular or historic architecture - its more about the components.
Well done!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
The children's heavy cardboard book demonstrates a wonderful idea well executed. My grandson at 3 loves it!
An elegant board book.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
This small cardboard book features photographs of buildings and architectural details. The photographs are beautiful - curious subjects in luminescent hues; there is no text other than the names of the colors. If you are a parent bored to tears with green frogs and red balloons, this book is a lifesaver. It is not clear to me what aspect of this book interests my two year old son, but it has been among his top ten for the past four months
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