The abundance of new words is balanced by a comprehensive glossary and accompanying castle map, and the second-person voice gives an immediate “You are there” feeling that kids will appreciate. This engaging introduction to castles gives just enough information to explain each inhabitant’s occupation or a room’s purpose while keeping the text friendly to new readers. Guards successfully repel invaders with boiling water and flaming arrows, and the book ends on a happy note with a celebratory feast. Outside the castle, an attack unfolds as battering rams are used against the walls and pigs are catapulted over the fortifications.

Young readers will giggle at the depiction of a guard visiting the toilet while gaining an understanding of how that facility would work. and a wide moat,” then in greater detail once “you get past the guards.” A variety of castle dwellers are briefly introduced, from the blacksmith to the lord and lady, as are the configurations of the rooms and fortifications. The structure is first described from afar with “tall towers. Castle once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing cross-hatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period.This early reader provides an intimate tour of a complex structure that budding engineers and/or young history buffs will love. Castle once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing cross-hatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period., * 'No mere colorization of the black-and-white originals of the first two books (thank goodness!), the all-new, often breathtaking images have been drawn by hand and then digitally colored.'- Kirkus, starred review, * 'No mere colorization of the black-and-white originals of the first two books (thank goodness!), the all-new, often breathtaking images have been drawn by hand and then digitally colored.'- Kirkus, starred review, 'What David Macaulay can draw - churches, cities, pyramids - he does better than any pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. * 'No mere colorization of the black-and-white originals of the first two books (thank goodness!), the all-new, often breathtaking images have been drawn by hand and then digitally colored.'e' Kirkus, starred review, What David Macaulay can draw - churches, cities, pyramids - he does better than any pen-and-ink illustrator in the world.

Castle by david macaulay