Books with title Building

“Building Bridges” is best when read by a parent and child. Kind of like how it was written and illustrated by a dad and his son. It’s for everyone ages 8 to 80 and in many ways, it’s a parent’s book as much as it is a children’s book. You’ll see. Eleven-year-old, Jesse isn’t the most athletic of kids. Actually, Jesse doesn’t have an athletic bone in his undersized body. Unlike Jesse, football is life to Jesse’s dad. He has a wall of trophies that he dusts off before his friends come over to watch football. Jesse doesn’t have any sports trophies. Jesse does have an incredibly high level of intelligence, an unrelenting spirit and a set of values that Jesse and a few new friends help his dad begin to see and learn to appreciate. Jesse isn’t great at sports. He isn’t like his dad; Jesse is like Jesse and that’s just fine because everyone is great at something.

Watch an abandoned building being demolished and a new one rise up in its place. Observe concrete cutters, bulldozers, excavators, concrete mixers, cranes, tunnel borers and steam rollers at work on a building site, at a boatyard, building an underground tunnel, a motorway and a dam. Learn about all the different people involved in each stage of construction: architects, masons, carpenters, plumbers, electricians and many others.

“Building Bridges” is best when read together by parent and child. Kind of like how it was written and illustrated by a dad and his son. It’s for everyone ages 8 to 80 and in many ways, it’s a parent’s book as much as a children’s book. You’ll see. Eleven-year-old, Jesse isn’t the most athletic of kids. Actually, Jesse doesn’t have an athletic bone in his undersized body. Unlike Jesse, football is life to Jesse’s dad. He has a wall of trophies that he dusts off before his friends come over to watch football. Jesse doesn’t have any sports trophies. Jesse does have an incredibly high level of intelligence, an unrelenting spirit and a set of values that Jesse and a few new friends help his dad begin to see and learn to appreciate. Jesse isn’t great at sports. He isn’t like his dad; Jesse is like Jesse and that’s just fine because everyone is great at something.

This is a title in the "Eyewitness Guides" series, which combine 3-D photographs with clearly written text. This book aims to inspire readers to take a closer look at the places we live and work in, and discover why and how they are built and decorated as they are. From brushwood shelters to today's concrete jungle, tiled floors to the dome of St Pauls' Cathedral, it provides a display of the variety and beauty of buildings.