The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Hale, Christy

Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building

40 pp. | Lee | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60060-651-9 $18.95

(1) PS Fifteen childhood building projects are deftly rendered in concrete poems and mixed-media collages, each paired with a photo of an iconic building bearing a resemblance. A toddler's upside-down stack of graduated plastic doughnuts look like Wright's Guggenheim Museum; a snowball igloo mirrors a sample shelter for living on Mars. Hale suggests that using what's at hand to "dream up" new things is vital to creativity.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2013