Cathedral (children's book)

Cathedral: The Story of its Construction is an illustrated book by David Macaulay. Published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the author's first book.

Cathedral tells the story of the construction of a great medieval cathedral using pen-and-ink drawings.[1][2] It won the 1975 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for children's non-fiction.

Teaching resources based on the book

PBS documentary

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gollark: And the unlabelled buttons tied to important parts of the security system I stuck on random wall panels.
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References

  1. Heller, Steven (5 December 1999). "Quicker Than St. John the Divine; David Macaulay reconstructs his most successful book only 25 years after its first completion". New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. Jenkins, Mark (27 July 2007). "Deconstructing the Art of Architecture". Washington Post. Retrieved 7 October 2016.


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