David MacAulay

• Mar-2023
• / General Fiction

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

• May-2008
• / General Fiction

From the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, a remarkable look at how a sixteenth-century mosque would have been built, in words and pictures.   "Gorgeously illustrated . . . Macaulay is renowned for spectacul...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction

High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the façade of a once glorious church. There, among the sticks and feathers, he discovers a wounded bird. Angelo becomes the bird’s reluctant savior. As the church nears completion, ...

• Oct-1999
• / Action Adventure

Albert and his trusty mare, June, set off early on market day to sell their melons in town, thus beginning a mysterious chain of events in a thought-provoking journey that exposes ordinary life as an intricate sequence of action and reaction....

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction

A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. Every time a corner is turned ...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction

In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship's recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a ...

• Jul-1991
• / General Fiction

• May-1990
• / General Fiction

Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?...

• Nov-1989
• / General Fiction

This illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.   This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey ...

• Jan-1988
• / General Fiction

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in c...

• Nov-1987
• / General Fiction

• Oct-1987
• / General Fiction

A rollicking investigation of cause and effect by the Caldecott medalist. The tale of the chicken and Desperate Dan, a bandit, told in beautiful full-color pictures and leavened by the trademark wit of David Macaulay....

• Oct-1985
• / General Fiction

After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well....

• Oct-1983
• / General Fiction

• Apr-1983
• / General Fiction

This illustrated book gives young readers "a breathtaking and entirely original insight" into the complex systems that exist underneath modern cities (Kirkus, starred review).   Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator David Ma...

• Apr-1982
• / General Fiction

• Apr-1978
• / General Fiction

A wonderous portfolio that has to be seen to be savored -- or even believed for that matter. Here are the plans for the Tower of Pisa -- on a skewed drafting table, the Eiffel Tower tipped over across from the Seine, the ruins of a McDonald's stand f...

• Oct-1977
• / General Fiction

A 1978 Caldecott Honor Book The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinate...