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Angelo

Angelo( )
Author: Macaulay, David
ISBN:978-0-618-16826-2
Publication Date:Apr 2002
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book Description:

High above the rooftops of Rome, Angelo begins his work restoring the façade of a once glorious church. As with every project, he starts his final masterpiece by clearing away the years of debris left behind by the many pigeons who nest in the nooks and crannies of Rome's great architecture. There, among the sticks and feathers, he discovers a wounded bird. Finding no safe place to leave her, Angelo becomes the bird's reluctant savior. As the church nears completion, Angelo...
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Book Details
Pages:48
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Architecture
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.5 x 11 x 0.13 Inches
Book Weight:0.968 Pounds
Author Biography
Macaulay, David (Author)
David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973.

His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work.

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