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On a beach somewhere in the world, a child is building a sandcastle. She’s used buckets and shovels to build a strong foundation, shells and feathers for decoration, and now she’s adding the turrets. She chooses fancy ones, delicate, lacy little drip castles that seem to rise out of the structure as she lets thegritty water drip from her fingertips, higher and higher until . . . oh, no, it crashes from underneath or from a wave that washes it completely away. And she begins all over again.
But what if she could keep building? What if the castle could be designed in such a way that it could outlast the tides? Could it become big enough to hide in? As big as a house? How about a cathedral? This is the concept on which Christy Hale has based her book Dreaming Up: a Celebration of Building by Christy Hale (Lee and Low Books, 2012) Ages 4-8, one of the coolest books I’ve seen in a long time. Take a building block, add another, imagine some water and trees �" could this be how Frank Lloyd Wright conceived Fallingwater in Pennsylvania? Did Antonin Gaudi start with a drip castle and end ...