Tuesday, December 14, 2010

To be enjoyed with those young and young at heart

I can not recommend this book highly enough.  It's so beautiful and fun to read.  We always have a few laughs reading it.  I'm sure my son, Liam 2, knows more about buildings all over the world then I ever did at 20.

Andrea Beaty’s 2007 children’s classic, Iggy Peck Architect -  the tale of a little boy with big ideas about designing buildings. His architecture-phobic grade 2 teacher, Miss Lila Greer, forbids him to follow his passion. All that changes, of course, when he masterminds a brilliant solution to a problem that leaves his teacher and fellow classmates floored.
David Roberts’ intricate illustrations complement this fun and funny tale that paints architects as problem-solving, humanitarian, out-of-the-box thinkers rather than cravat-wearing egotists! Budding designers of all kinds will love this book.  It begins ....

Young Iggy Peck is an architect
and has been since he was two,
when he built a great tower – in only an hour -
with nothing but diapers and glue.

Iggy Peck, Architect

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