About the Author

A critically acclaimed illustrator, David Macaulay has created more than twenty books for children, among them Built to Last, Castle (a Caldecott Honor book), Cathedral, Black and White (a Caldecott Medal winner), The Way We Work, and The Way Things Work (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner). David Macaulay lives with his family in Vermont.

Reviews

"What David Macaulay can draw -- churches, cities, pyramids -- he does better than any pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. Castle once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing cross-hatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period." Time Magazine