For an adult who loves fantasy or historical romance, it's quite useful in providing a visual concept for how many of your favorite fictional settings might have looked. Even though it's a children's book, Macaulay uses many difficult terms, so I'm not actually sure how child-friendly this book is, or whether a child would actually have any interest in it beyond using it as a secondary resource for a history project. He includes helpful illustrations, maps, and blueprints to illustrate more complex and detailed concepts. Macaulay goes into all the steps of building a castle, from the outer wall to the fortifications to the construction of the bathrooms. While the castle itself may be purely make-believe, the descriptions of how it was built were not. I checked it out immediately.ĬASTLE is an account of a fictional Welsh castle called Aberwyvern. Imagine my delight when I find out that my library has a copy of it in their e-book library. Now that I've gotten into fantasy novels and bodice rippers, CASTLE suddenly feels much more relevant. (Pyramid is excellent, by the way if you ever happen upon a copy of it, you must watch it.) He also did another child-focused documentary called Castle, which I wasn't as interested in: this girl favored Egyptians over European feudalism & crusades, thank you very much. I remember I used to force my poor, beleaguered parents to sit through Pyramid (1988) with me, over and over and over. David Macaulay is a British writer and illustrator who specializes in architecture and history.
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