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Reviewed by: Ana Canino-Fluit, Elementary School Librarian Title: Why Humans Build Up: The Rise of Towers, Temples and Skyscrapers
Author: Gregor Craige Illustrator: Kathleen Fu
Publisher: Orca Book Publisher
Year: 2022 Good for Grades: 3-8 Genre/Type of Book: Nonfiction
Content Warnings, or things that other School Librarians should be aware of: No Recommended for a school library: Yes Reason(s) for choosing the book: It combines STEM, modern and ancient history, archelogy, and architechture while putting it into personal and global context.
If you were tasked by the publisher with writing a short quote for the back cover of this book, what would it be:
Why humans build up, rises above to provide a fascinating mix of historical, cultural and technological analysis of humanity's facination with building tall buildings!
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Review:
Why Humans Build up: The Rise of Towers Temples and Skyscrapers examines the many reasons humans have been building tall buildings throughout history and into the modern day. The book is broken up into eleven chapters covering those reasons (security, spirituality, ingenuity, utility, rivalry, beauty, industry, observatories, luxury, efficiency and sustainability) while highlighting two to five towers, temples or buildings in each chapter. The prose is highly readable and the book has a great mix of illustrations and photographs, along with sidebars highlighting special features of these tall buildings and those who build them.
I think this a great book for your budding engineers, that moves beyond just STEM in to STEAM, and connects the technical to the affective by explicitly moving beyond just numbers to the historical and cultural context for building.
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