Great book for kids - Steven Caney's Ultimate Building Book

[JWmHarmon]

I picked up a copy of Steven Caney's Ulitmate Building Book. Copyright 2006.

Running Press Kids (Running Press Book Publishers)
125 S. 22nd St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 19103-4399

ISBN 13: 978-0-7624-0409-4

This is a great book for kids and adults. It has explanations of how sturctures and forms contribute to buildings. It uses everyday items for kids to explore building principles.

It has great illustrations of everything from arches to space frames, to domes and arches, to panel construction and tensile structures.

Kids can use anything from paper to drinking cups to sugar cubes and marshmallows, cardboard, string, coat hangers and plastic tubes to explore ideas about structure and building.

The book includes sections suitable for adults with commentary or illustrations of beams, cantilevers, domes, post and column, geodesic domes, tensegrity structures... you name it, it's here.

You will find mention of the Pompidou Center, the Flat Iron Building, Sears Tower, Petrones Towers, Taipei 101, John Hancock Center in Chicago, igloos, log cabins, Sydney Opera House, yurts, Haj Terminal (Saudi Arabia), Gateway Arch, and many others.

This is THE BEST BOOK of its kind I have ever seen. It even has illustrations of how to build bridges out of pasta.

This is a great book for all kids to discover building principles.