Advantages: Well written, lots of beautiful illustrations. Great for kids of all ages. A useful tool for supplementing school projects or as part of a home-school theme on ships. Disadvantages: To do this book justice, you really need the time to examine each page carefully.
Another masterpiece from the winning duo of Stephen Biesty and Richard Platt, and part of the Dorling Kindersley "Cross-Sections" series is "Castle". This book shows the inner workings of a 14th Century English castle, and as always, provides so much information, you'll want to come back and look at it again and again. Stephen Biesty's talent as an illustrator is immense, and he and Richard Platt (who writes the book) are brilliant in their fields. ... ..."Cross-Sections" series, each two page spread gives a full page illustration of the inside of the castle, with a particular topic in mind. Richard presents a one to two paragraph editorail, and then lines from the drawing come out to sidebars with smaller illustrations and fuller information on some aspect of that topic. Some of the topics included in "Castle" are Defense and Seige, Garrison and Prisoners, Building The Castle and Living Like A Lord. ...
poet831 12.03.2001
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